[CS-FSLUG] Re: Flash drives

[Stephen J. McCracken]

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timbrown at ichristian.com wrote:
> Hi Phil:
> 
> Yes, that's what I'm thinking...I did a full Suse 9.2 install and I 
> think it was just over 5 gigabytes in size. Seems to me that I can get 
> an 8gb pen drive and it should work ok...just keep your data on HD or 
> another pen drive.
> Thanks (to all of you) for your info.
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>> If I remember correctly, ars technica once tried to set up multiple
>> pen drives in a RAID configuration...  Sorry for not providing links,
>> but I think it should be easy to google for if someone's interested.  
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>>> On Sunday 13 March 2005 01:10, timbrown at ichristian.com wrote:
>>> > Just wondering if there is any way that someone could get Linux to
>>> > boot up from a USB device...such as an 8Gb pen memory device...Then
>>> > just use your HD for data storage...or another USB device?
>>> There are gazillions of Knoppix-alikes which are aimed directly at
>>> memory sticks, including Mandrake Move.
>>> Cheers; Leon

One thing you might want to think about, depending on the amount of use 
you are going to put into this, is that flash drives have a finite 
number of write cycles.  You probably want to mount it read-only and 
have the writeable stuff in memory or on the HD.  We have set up a 
Wireless router off of Pebble Linux this way.  It also means you don't 
have any problems with a hard power down.

sjm