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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:29:11 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LiveUSB
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> On Friday 11 January 2008, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
>> 2nd question: I must be dense on this one so someone help me out.
>> Since a USB stick is seen as a hard drive, why can't I do a standard
>> install to it? Is it because until lately they haven't been large
>> enough? I'm thinking of using an 8GB one.
>
> There's a few reasons:
>
> 1. The memory used on those devices has a limited life - about 100,000
> writes for the good ones and maybe 10,000 for the bad ones. With a
> standard install, frequent writes are the norm (think cache and other
> similar things). This usually ends up at the same spot on the disk,
> meaning your new install will last about a month if you are lucky.
> There are ways around this, for instance how a LiveCD does things.
>
> 2. Booting off it is a pain. You need drivers for the entire USB stack
> at boot time, which usually means a ginormous initrd.
>
> 3. Size, which you mentioned
>
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> Alan McKinnon
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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>
Does desktop RAM get constantly refreshed while powered and it doesn't
need to keep any data when not powered?
Is that the difference?
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