Oops, that should be www.damnsmalllinux.org/ Scott wrote: > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------- 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