Re: linux on a flashdisk

From: Christopher Browne (cbbrowne_at_acm.org)
Date: 11/03/04 

Date: 3 Nov 2004 21:00:33 GMT

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Chris Cole <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 18:40:57 -0700, ray wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 21:57:06 +0000, ray wrote:
>>
>>> Recently read about someone setting up linux to boot from a flashdisk
>>> (pendrive, etc., whatever you call it). Actually, the note asked why would
>>> anyone want to, and there are several reasons. Can anyone point me at a
>>> step by step on how to do that - I'd like to have it for demo purposes
>>> when I talk about Linux.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>
>> Following one suggestion, I set up 'feather' linux on a flashdisk. Set the
>> bios to boot from USB-Zip disk, and it booted up fine. So, that's one
>> approach.
>
> As a side note, are you aware of the lifetime problems associated with
> using flash disks to run an OS on? The fact that flash disks have a finite
> read-write capability (i.e. low) added to the constant swapping to disk of
> linux results in a very short lived disk.

It isn't usual to configure swap on a flash device, and this is
exactly the kind of case where you'd be likely to take the option of
not configuring there to be _any_ swap space. 

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