I received a new toy in the post today that I ordered from E-Bay. It’s an IDE to CF converter. It plugs into the standard ribbon cable of a laptop and allows me to connect a Compact Flash card instead of a 2.5″ disk drive.

Needless to say, being solid state memory, it doesn’t make the noise a HDD makes and it certainly doesn’t use the power.

I installed Puppy Linux onto an old 256Mb CF card I had lying around and installed it (using the converter) into the defunct laptop that I’m going to use for my digital media frame.

Hooray! It works. The next step is to make my own distro based upon Puppy so I can remove all the applications that I don’t need and speed up the boot process.