From: Rumen Yotov <rumen_yotov@dir.bg>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Thumbdrive
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 11:09:59 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1125734999.11451.7.camel@mach.qrypto.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200509022221.32724.nbensa@gmx.net>
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On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 22:21 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 19:06:13 -0400, Michael Crute wrote:
> > > additionally carry around a thumbdrive. I was wondering if anyone has
> > > been able to install Gentoo on a thumbdrive. I assume it could be
> > > treated like a regular hard drive, correct?
> >
> > Incorrect. Flash memory only has a limited write lifetime, treating it
> > like a hard drive will kill it in no time.
> >
>
> Yup. Like in three years or so... I've dropped both floppies and CD-RW discs
> in favor of pendrives (1GB)
>
> The down side is: not every computer out there can boot from a USB device. So
> for some computers, you still have to carry a boot floppy, but I can live
> with it for now.
>
> Regards,
> Norberto
Hi,
A little OT here, but just wanted to mention a distro (XoL IIRC) it's a
derivative of SoL (Server oriented? Linux) linux project (check
distrowatch.com), there are some more projects under SoL.
Basic idea is to run the main system from CD-ROM but have all configs &
docs on an USB-pen drive. So in theory boot the CD, work, save your
docs/work and go on. Moving office w/o a laptop.
PS: no experience with this checked the page though.
Rumen
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-02 23:06 [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Thumbdrive Michael Crute
2005-09-02 23:44 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-09-03 0:59 ` Michael Crute
2005-09-03 8:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-09-03 1:21 ` Norberto Bensa
2005-09-03 8:00 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-09-03 17:45 ` Norberto Bensa
2005-09-03 18:02 ` Rumen Yotov
2005-09-04 9:23 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-09-04 17:11 ` Norberto Bensa
2005-09-04 18:01 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-09-03 8:09 ` Rumen Yotov [this message]
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