Yeah, DamnSmallLinux does this already. www.damnsmall*linux*.org/ -Scott ericİ wrote: > Given that a lot of systems are capable of a gig or more of memory, > what about running a flash drive with the distro installed to the > flash, and either setting the swap to use a RAM drive, or even running > the full distro in a RAM drive? Obviously, this deviates quite a bit > from what the thread started as and I'm not suggesting this as a > solution to his question. Seems that it could easily solve the > problem of repeated writes to the flash. > > eric > > On 11/15/06, *Joseph Sinclair* > 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. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss