From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EBMnr-0007eu-EO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 01:26:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j831MeBg011117; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 01:22:40 GMT Received: from smtp.bensa.ar (pc6.telecentro.com.ar [200.115.228.6] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j831IxQl007020 for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 01:19:00 GMT Received: from venkman.bensa.ar (venkman.bensa.ar [192.168.1.125]) by smtp.bensa.ar (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B561A61715; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 22:21:39 -0300 (ART) From: Norberto Bensa To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Thumbdrive Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 22:21:30 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: Neil Bothwick References: <558b73fb05090216063e86d8f0@mail.gmail.com> <20050903004408.09ef8728@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20050903004408.09ef8728@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4023677.2MirTIcl0k"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200509022221.32724.nbensa@gmx.net> X-Archives-Salt: 184aaf03-dd55-45d6-a9f7-df9906361653 X-Archives-Hash: dd96a1053f5d0da03bb759ce96815541 --nextPart4023677.2MirTIcl0k Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 disc= s=20 in favor of pendrives (1GB) The down side is: not every computer out there can boot from a USB device. = So=20 for some computers, you still have to carry a boot floppy, but I can live=20 with it for now. Regards, Norberto --nextPart4023677.2MirTIcl0k Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.9.18 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDGPqcyDSg81NUg48RAt53AKCY2XPuaD4nRFyNnLMQfpb9yZFPEwCePyAr //Lzpt8HdVA2aWeMZVScLm8= =ReFH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4023677.2MirTIcl0k-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list