On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 19:06:13 -0400, Michael Crute wrote:

> Lately I have been doing a lot of traveling and at the moment I don't
> have a laptop. Needless to say I run into a lot of crappy computers
> (aka computers running Windoze). I typically carry a SLAX cd to remedy
> the problem but the downside is I can't save my files unless I
> 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.

However, you're in luck. There is a distro for flash drives that is based
on GNOME, Flash Linux. The author gave a presentation on it at the UK
Gentoo meeting earlier this year. See http://flashlinux.org.uk/


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