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 1EBLC2-00056j-VF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 23:43:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j82Ne1Ef015409; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 23:40:01 GMT Received: from pythagoras.zen.co.uk (pythagoras.zen.co.uk [212.23.3.140]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j82NaPOC017024 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 23:36:25 GMT Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=desiato.digimed.co.uk) by pythagoras.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1EBL7h-0005lm-US for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 23:39:07 +0000 Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id F01BE1410332 for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 00:38:52 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 00:44:08 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Thumbdrive Message-ID: <20050903004408.09ef8728@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <558b73fb05090216063e86d8f0@mail.gmail.com> References: <558b73fb05090216063e86d8f0@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.14-rc4 (GTK+ 2.6.10; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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=Signature_Sat__3_Sep_2005_00_44_08_+0100_w4ydFUpemYTtfqsy; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Originating-Pythagoras-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: 9fbe85c0-e98c-474a-adf3-7254ab1a75ea X-Archives-Hash: d1c6828e1969b937088344668864e613 --Signature_Sat__3_Sep_2005_00_44_08_+0100_w4ydFUpemYTtfqsy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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/ --=20 Neil Bothwick If you think that you can truncate my sig to 75 chars, then you can just fu --Signature_Sat__3_Sep_2005_00_44_08_+0100_w4ydFUpemYTtfqsy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDGOPNum4al0N1GQMRAv01AJ4oKxdPbizvfsnFyI9jE/uFtg31FwCg1a1c JFczA+QTngxl0VkpXtmwo/I= =WQye -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Sat__3_Sep_2005_00_44_08_+0100_w4ydFUpemYTtfqsy-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list