If I get my compact flash to ide adapter
Check the motherboard for an ide connection. Many IA devices had the compact flash, but also had 40-pins out for an ide connection, but small scale. The adaptor to go from the small scale pinout to a laptop drive was only a couple of bucks. The tablets we ran BeIA on (DT300's) were only 233Mhz processors, and I believe 32 or 64Mb of RAM. Boot times on those were much faster than the 45-60 seconds you describe, so you might have a debug build of Stinger or something. DJ