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 > -- Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss