Quote Originally Posted by ockham23
The reason I'm asking is that this sounds like a good solution for a silent PC
I thought about that too. But I found it to be cheaper and simpler to install a 2.5" notebook harddrive. I recommend MHT2030AT (30 GB) and MHT2040AT (40 GB) from Fujitsu. Both have only one platter and spin at 4200 revs/min which makes them practically inaudible. As these are not the latest models, you can buy them on eBay at a discount.
Yeah but a spinning hard drive will never be as reliable as a solid state ROM.

After fighting with lilo for a week I gave up and tried to do this with Syslinux. It worked on the first try. LILO sure can be a royal pain in the neck. Here's some links if anyone else wants to do it with syslinux:
http://syslinux.zytor.com/faq.php
http://darkdust.net/marc/diskimagehowto.php
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LGNET/current/okopnik1.html