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On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 19:06:13 -0400, Michael Crute wrote: |
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> Lately I have been doing a lot of traveling and at the moment I don't |
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> have a laptop. Needless to say I run into a lot of crappy computers |
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> (aka computers running Windoze). I typically carry a SLAX cd to remedy |
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> the problem but the downside is I can't save my files unless I |
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> additionally carry around a thumbdrive. I was wondering if anyone has |
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> been able to install Gentoo on a thumbdrive. I assume it could be |
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> treated like a regular hard drive, correct? |
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Incorrect. Flash memory only has a limited write lifetime, treating it |
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like a hard drive will kill it in no time. |
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However, you're in luck. There is a distro for flash drives that is based |
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on GNOME, Flash Linux. The author gave a presentation on it at the UK |
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Gentoo meeting earlier this year. See http://flashlinux.org.uk/ |
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Neil Bothwick |
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If you think that you can truncate my sig to 75 chars, then you can just |
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fu |
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