On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Kushal Koolwal <kushalkool...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Does anybody have any experience with installing Debian (say Lenny) on USB > flash drives? I would like to install Debian on my PQI 4 GB USB flash drive > but I am not sure which filesystem to use - ext2, ext3, XFS?
I've done something like this and it worked pretty well with etch-and-a-half several months ago. I just used ext2 as the filesystem for simplicity and haven't had any issues thus far. I have heard that flash storage these days sustains enough write cycles to outlive the average hard drive. I have no science to back this claim up, but since flash drives are relatively cheap these days, I haven't been overly concerned about it. As for installing to and booting from a usb device, you may have to add usb_core to the modules loaded by your initrd if your initrd complains of being unable to find the root device. Regards, Elijah -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
