won't setting a label and identifying the drive by label (rather than /dev/*****) prevent that? :-)~MIKE~(-: On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:27 PM, JD Austin wrote: > I've had the best luck with usb3 drives even if the computer only supports > usb2.0. > You can just burn a bootable cd/dvd and install it as if it were a hard > drive. > Keep in mind if you unplug it and plug in other usb devices it's device > name may change so your best choice is plug it in the same usb port and set > it as the first disk device in bios. > > -- JD Austin > Voice: 480.269.4335 (480 2MY Geek) > jd@twingeckos.com > > > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 4:36 PM, AZ Pete wrote: >>>> >>>>> This PC doesn't have USB 3.0, will USB 2.0 be fast enough? >>>>> >>>> >> Probably. It won't be as fast as SATA, but it took 58 seconds to rsync >> my ~ to a USB2 disk just now. 140G of stuff, 125M transferred, and this is >> a spinny disk--a flash disk might be faster because of no seek time. >> >> >> On 2014-04-24 19:49, AZ Pete wrote: >> >>> Any sites that explain how to install Linux to a USB drive such that >>> the system would view it as a hard drive? >>> >> >> Any x86 from the last 5 years will be able to boot from a USB disk. USB >> disks all look like SCSI disks to the kernel. As such, you can plug the >> USB disk in, boot from an install CD, and tell that install CD to use the >> USB disk as the place to put / and /home and /usr and all those things. >> >> Note that flash disks may eventually wear out. After 300,000 writes, a >> bit cell in a flash disk may not retain its value. Wear-leveling >> algorithms in the disk's controller usually mean this doesn't happen until >> the disk is many years old. Having swap on a flash disk and using swap a >> lot might accelerate this process though--I can't really tell as I've never >> put swap on a flash disk. >> >> -- >> Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress >> There is no Darkness in Eternity >> But only Light too dim for us to see. >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >