Yeah, DamnSmallLinux does this already.
www.damnsmall*linux*.org/
-Scott
eric© 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* <plug-discussion@stcaz.net
> <mailto:plug-discussion@stcaz.net>> 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.
>
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