Wanted: Flash Drive bootable Linus Info.

[Dazed_75]

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 <plug-discussion at 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.
>
> hacktavist at 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
> >
>
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