On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 20:59:49 -0400, Michael Crute wrote: > > Incorrect. Flash memory only has a limited write lifetime, treating it > > like a hard drive will kill it in no time.
> Hmm... I had no idea (story of my life). About what is the lifetime of > one of these little guys? Around 100,000 writes. > However, you're in luck. There is a distro for flash drives that is > based > > on GNOME, Flash Linux. The author gave a presentation on it at the UK > > Gentoo meeting earlier this year. See http://flashlinux.org.uk/ > Well, SLAX runs from a thumbdrive too. The thing is that I have gotten > spoiled by my Gentoo box that runs only what I want and I want to have > my own "custom linux". How bad would it be for the drive if I just ran > Linux off of it (read only)? I would install gentoo on a real hard disk > first and then copy the partition over the the flash disk. Would this > be a suitable solution? Running from a pendrive, be it SLAX or DSL, is fine, because the drive is read-only. It's when you start writing repeatedly to the drive, as you would a hard disk, that the problems start. I didn't state that you cannot put Gentoo on a flash drive, in fact I stated the opposite. I was disagreeing with the OP's question "I assume it could be treated like a regular hard drive, correct?". -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 01B: Illegal error - You are not allowed to get this error. Next time you will get a penalty for that.
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