From: Norberto Bensa <nbensa@gmx.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Thumbdrive
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 22:21:30 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200509022221.32724.nbensa@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050903004408.09ef8728@krikkit.digimed.co.uk>
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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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-03 1:26 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
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
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