Wanted: Flash Drive bootable Linus Info.

[Joseph Sinclair]

Both Puppy and DSL will use a swap partition detected on a local HD if such exists.  This holds true for both LiveCD and Flash installs.

Dazed_75 wrote:
> I know that some (at least for the LiveCD) will use a swap partition on the
> HD if there is one.  I have to hope that putting them on a flash drive
> retains that trait.  Does anyone know for sure one way or the other?
> 
> On 11/15/06, Joseph Sinclair <plug-discussion at stcaz.net> wrote:
>>
>> You could, but the system would usually put swap on the root
>> partition.  Since swap is a lot of writes, and many flash-memory drives
>> don't survive large numbers of writes, it is known to destroy the
>> flash-memory drive.
>>
>> The advantage of the systems that are designed to use flash-memory is
>> that
>> they minimize the writes to flash-memory (usually only on shutdown), thus
>> preserving it.  There are a number of systems designed this way, but the
>> most popular are Puppy and DSL (both of which are often used in
>> systems that
>> boot and run entirely from a CF card), but there are some others.
>>
>> hacktavist at cox.net wrote:
>> > Just kinda my 0.02$ but, why would it not be possible to install a full
>> > distro on a 1 gig flash drive. I know that with *BSD it is more than
>> > possible. Really just wondering.
>> > Ray
>> >
>>
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