I've been using a 4Gb flash drive for six months now... it has worked perfectly as far as I'm able to tell. I am not well versed in performance issues and so I might miss them if they cropped up. Firefox is a dog, but then it always is... I always restart the computer before doing any cutting incase I've had a memory leak churning away.
I am using an intel atom motherboard; once I figured out the BIOS settings it worked like any other machine. I put 2Gb Ram in it to diminish any need for swap space. So far I have been extremely pleased. the whole computer cost under $150 at Fry's. The flash stick cost $8. I did a fresh install to the stick, with minimal extra software. I am likewise interested in any technical considerations that this approach may entail. I feel like I'm getting away with something that shouldn't work. Would Acronis be suitable for cloning my flash stick? On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Dave <e...@dc9.tzo.com> wrote: > You should also be able to use Acronis to clone the drive to the flash > drive, however Acronis does not support the ext4 file system. But it > will tell you that if you try and backup an ext4 file system with Acronis. > > Unless you try and restore stuff to the linux hard drive there is almost > no way to corrupt the files on it with Acronis. > > Dave > > On 4/13/2010 5:49 PM, RogerN wrote: > > I'm interested in trying to run my EMC2 lathe from a CF card. I bought a > 4Gb CF card, can I make an Acronis backup of my EMC2 hard drive and restore > on the CF card? Or if I try to install from the Live CD will it let me > select the USB CF drive and leave my working hard drive alone? I want to > try it out on the CF card but I don't want it to destroy what works on my > hard drive. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Roger Neal > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
