David Christensen wrote: > I have considered installing and running Debian on SD cards. At this > point, I would probably choose a "high endurance" device rather than a > "fast' device, because I want the system to last. (The few solid-state > device failures I have seen all followed the same pattern: working to > non-working, with no warning and little or no recovery. At least one > included the smell of roasting electronics; e.g. "let the smoke out".) >
CF cards are much better but also more expensive. No electronic device is meant to work forever - disaster recovery should be always considered. Depends on how your setup looks like, typically Debian is <4GB. I have installations from 450MB to 2GB. > > I have tried running machines without swap, but found that they crashed. > Now I always include a 1 GB swap partition when installing. why not using swap (if disk space is available) disk space is cheap. regards