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@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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