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Is it possible to use something like an IDE to SD adapter and dd an iso to an SD card? If it's not possible, where can I find an IDE cdrom emulator device?

Yes! This is exactly the idea. :)

This is one reason this is appealing...16 bit data bus, 24 bit address bus...the high end of the home systems I want to try and build a compatible system for. I could start with a 16 MB memory board, then just use a subset for most systems. Disk IO board to a single micro sd card slot to keep...

Oh yes, I definitely understand that going into it. That's why I think this could be interesting...S-100 wasn't designed for building a system compatible with the 8 and 16 bit home micros, but unless the S-100 standard has some sort of flaw that I'm not seeing, it seems like it could work for...

That's ok! I expect basically every card for this project would be built by hand, by me. I have no problem with that, but the design of such boards is probably beyond my ability, especially with regard to out of production ASICs. I would probably start with a z80 board, memory board, io, and...

Oh yes! That website is what sparked my interest in s100 computers. In fact, that site is where I first saw the MSX video board for S100. I do prefer forums like these vs mailing lists.

I'm just starting to learn about S-100 computers, and I had a few questions. (And I have seen www.s100computers.com) Is it reasonably possible, using certain combinations of cards, to build a system that is compatible with various early 8 and 16 bit commercial systems? For example, could I get...

Good news on the laptop side: While trying to dd an image to the 16 gig CF card, I got some IO errors, so it looks like that CF card might be defective. It was brand new when I got it, never used, but oh well. I bought a 4 gig Verbatim CF card, dded the disk image to it, and it boots!

Jeez...this problem is much much harder than I thought it could be. I found an optical drive and connected that and that alone to the Pentium II. (Also as a note the Pentium II motherboard is SE440BX-2) I then tried to boot from some various old Linux distros, Debian 4 installer, Knoppix, etc...

Thank you for the help so far everyone, trying to pick this project back up. I found a second system with IDE (Pentium II) to try and debug what is going on here. My CF card is 16 gigs SanDisk. I tried doing an install of FreeDOS directly to the CF card via KVM on my modern workstation. The CF...

I have a Toshiba Tecra 510CDT. This thing is absolutely perfect for my purpose...playing old games. I have Debian 3.0 running on it, and I can run Quake 1 using svgalib, without x.org. I also have a PCMCIA ethernet card and I can ssh with it, surf the internet with w3m, chat on irc, edit...