Technical help- Shaking a laptop to bits

Submitted: Wednesday, Jul 20, 2005 at 12:17
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Tested out the GPS/touchscreen combo on the weekend doing some geocaching, and came across yet another hurdle. The laptop itself I have suspended from a headrest (wooden brace held by headrest uprights and velcro loop straps hanging down from the wood to hold the lappy) and is relatively secured. The issue I have is I need to move away from the conventional spinning Hard disk to solid state memory because the corrugations and my driving style are sprouting bad sectors all over the disk and making it run like a pig.

Has anyone got their PC booting from solid state memory? I have the option to boot from USB, but Im wondering if there are other cheap options available. I have seen 2Gb PCMCIA cards, which I could load a linux OS to, but I'm concerned about the data speed between the storage media and PC. Also, I only have USB1 ports on the lappy, and have had to resort to a PCMCIA USB2 adaptor to get faster speeds, which I havent been able to boot successfully from.

I read a post a while back with a user booting I think knoppix linux on CD- how did you get the Natmap rasters and oziexplorer to run when booting off the CD?

I am after ANY info on the setup you have if its a little unordinary....
Cheers
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