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 1EBTNF-0002qg-Q3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 08:27:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j838O4hX027868; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 08:24:04 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 j838KRJb015039 for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 08:20:27 GMT Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=desiato.digimed.co.uk) by pythagoras.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1EBTIq-0003hF-Vd for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 08:23:11 +0000 Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1DBC1410330 for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 08:58:31 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 09:03:52 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Thumbdrive Message-ID: <20050903090352.1e53363c@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <558b73fb0509021759f106a42@mail.gmail.com> References: <558b73fb05090216063e86d8f0@mail.gmail.com> <20050903004408.09ef8728@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <558b73fb0509021759f106a42@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_09_03_52_+0100_dwMVCYjGeaT2yJbU; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Originating-Pythagoras-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: f9021f0b-d696-4567-9c46-31db2ab312d6 X-Archives-Hash: 664ab6acd42d942c62cc1835f849123f --Signature_Sat__3_Sep_2005_09_03_52_+0100_dwMVCYjGeaT2yJbU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 20:59:49 -0400, Michael Crute wrote: > > Incorrect. Flash memory only has a limited write lifetime, treating it > > like a hard drive will kill it in no time. > Hmm... I had no idea (story of my life). About what is the lifetime of > one of these little guys? Around 100,000 writes. > 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/ > Well, SLAX runs from a thumbdrive too. The thing is that I have gotten=20 > spoiled by my Gentoo box that runs only what I want and I want to have > my own "custom linux". How bad would it be for the drive if I just ran > Linux off of it (read only)? I would install gentoo on a real hard disk > first and then copy the partition over the the flash disk. Would this > be a suitable solution? Running from a pendrive, be it SLAX or DSL, is fine, because the drive is read-only. It's when you start writing repeatedly to the drive, as you would a hard disk, that the problems start. I didn't state that you cannot put Gentoo on a flash drive, in fact I stated the opposite. I was disagreeing with the OP's question "I assume it could be treated like a regular hard drive, correct?". --=20 Neil Bothwick WinErr 01B: Illegal error - You are not allowed to get this error. Next time you will get a penalty for that. --Signature_Sat__3_Sep_2005_09_03_52_+0100_dwMVCYjGeaT2yJbU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDGVjoum4al0N1GQMRAtlAAJ9YO9P/rNLFpYJh1PkJNNBmkGMrSwCgtZVp bivUSTEag1WMZbg/nK/qLFE= =qptU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Sat__3_Sep_2005_09_03_52_+0100_dwMVCYjGeaT2yJbU-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list