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 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@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 >> > >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> 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