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