Re: Installing linux on an IDE flash drive. Swap partition question

Jerry McBride wrote:
Rob Horton wrote:

Been using a base installation of Debian on a 2GB IDE flash drive
plugged into one of these:

http://www.ipoxtech.com/ADE-2100.php

My question is about the swap partition on the flash drive. Flash
eventually wears out. Surely a flash based swap partition will wear out
that part of the flash a lot quicker than the flash used for the rest of
the Linux installation. Is this considered a problem or just accepted as
a "feature" of using a flash drive.

Can I run Linux without a swap partition or base the swap partition in
RAM?

Thanks.

Robert,

Can I urge you to post your linux install procedure on the flash card? It
would help me and probably others too.

Thank you.


The IDE flash drive is a 2GB version of one of these (Embeddisk Module).

http://www.embeddisk.com/products.htm

It plugs directly into an IDE socket and can be treated just like an ordinary hard disk.

My installation procedure was to simply pop a cd with an iso image of the Debian business card installation into a temporarilty connected USB CDROM and perform a base installation. I then installed xserver and opera for the kiosk application that I am developing.

Oh, due to the small size of the drive I only have two partions, one for the swap and the other for everything else.

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