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 <
jd@twingeckos.com> 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
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> jd@twingeckos.com
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Matt Graham <mhgraham@crow202.org> 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.
>>
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