David Bendit wrote:
> On Nov 14, 2006, at 11:46 AM, Mike Schwartz wrote:
>
>> I realize that this thread may be "done" already (case closed),
>> but just for my 0.02, I happened to notice that at
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damn_Small_Linux
>> it specifically states (in the intro, even above the TOC) that:
>> << "Due to the small size of the complete distribution, it will run
>> on smaller storage devices than most other OSes, including bootable
>> business card, 64Mb USB Flash Drive , CompactFlash card (through
>> IDE connector) and ZIP drive." >>
>> Since you had stated,
>>> [...] preferably on a 1GB or smaller flash drive?
>> I thought this might be of interest.
>
> This is true, however, DSL is a LiveCD-like environment that the
> original post specifically wants to avoid. Sure, there's some level
> of modifiability with the use of the DSL packaging system, but
> there's still no way to save files and documents between boots
> (unless they changed something recently...I could be wrong). Only way
> to do that with DSL would be to have 2 partitions on the USB drive,
> one for the DSL stuff, the other as a home dir. Then, you'd need to
> mount the other partition on every boot, or re-master the DSL
> partition as a whole. Messy stuff.
>
> -David
I played around with DSL a year or two ago, and TTBOMK it had recently
acquired the ability to save things (files, profiles) to the HDD.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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