How long does it take to boot off the USB stick drive? There is a "how to" on the wiki http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Install_To_CompactFlash
I've always used CF to IDE or CF to Sata adapters for flash drive versions of Windows, but Linux is more forgiving from what I have seen than Windows. Windows requires the device to be a "non-removable" device before you can clone to it. (That is why putting Windows on a stick drive is more difficult, but not impossible - hacking required) I don't think that Acronis will write to a stick drive, at least not the version I have.. If you find differently, please let me know! Some CF to IDE and CF to Sata adapters can be run as a non removable device and some cannot. For Windows systems I have had good luck with Addonics adapters. Some of the available adapters are very cheaply constructed and simply don't work. You also need to use a CF card and adapter that is DMA capable. I was buying Transcend 133x CF cards a while ago for Windows systems and those have worked out fine. They were the lowest cost cards I could find at the time that supported DMA and they have proven to be reliable. One system has been running 24x7 for two years now. A windows system running on a CF card requires part of Windows embedded to get around the constant disk writes that windows makes to the drive - which will wear out a CF card eventually.. (how long.. hard to tell) Looks like Linux has similar issues with the swap file according to the wiki. With the cost of memory these days, I'd just stick in 2 gigs of ram and forget about it. Perhaps I need to try Alex's method of simply copying the contents from one drive to the next and rerunning the boot manager off a live CD.... that seems possibly easier.. or at least you don't need Acronis and a windows system to do it. Dave On 4/13/2010 8:10 PM, Matthew Ireland wrote: > 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. 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