CF to boot Linux

[James Sissel]

I was thinking more of speed.  They've got to be faster than a hard drive.  I've got this cute little adaptor that takes one of the SD cards and converts it into and IDE connection.  But the flash memory has a limit on how many times it can be erased before they are damaged.  It's quite high but I can see /tmp or /var hitting that limit.  I was thinking of putting those partitions on an actual hard drive.  The little card can be "locked" so no information can be written (it's a jumper).  So once you install Linux it would 1) boot quickly and 2) couldn't be changed unless you had physical access to the box.

gary hildebrand <wa7kkp at gmail.com> wrote:    
I would say since those thumbdrives are solid state, theoretically they should last forever, barring fire, flood, act of God, or static discharge . . 
   
  I'd like to do that myself, get an 8 GB thumb and install SuSE on it and run it on the St. Joe library machines, completely bypassing their native o/s.  I don't think they'd like it unless I could prove to them it wouldn't muck up something in Windoze (version of the week). 
   
  Gary Hildebrand
  St. Joe, MO
 
    

From: "Brian Kelsay" <ripcrd at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Installing Linux to a 4gb usb microdrive 

There's info out there on how to prevent excessive writes.  Google for Linux
on a CF.

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