On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 22:21 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 19:06:13 -0400, Michael Crute wrote: > > > additionally carry around a thumbdrive. I was wondering if anyone has > > > been able to install Gentoo on a thumbdrive. I assume it could be > > > treated like a regular hard drive, correct? > > > > Incorrect. Flash memory only has a limited write lifetime, treating it > > like a hard drive will kill it in no time. > > > > Yup. Like in three years or so... I've dropped both floppies and CD-RW discs > in favor of pendrives (1GB) > > The down side is: not every computer out there can boot from a USB device. So > for some computers, you still have to carry a boot floppy, but I can live > with it for now. > > Regards, > Norberto Hi, A little OT here, but just wanted to mention a distro (XoL IIRC) it's a derivative of SoL (Server oriented? Linux) linux project (check distrowatch.com), there are some more projects under SoL. Basic idea is to run the main system from CD-ROM but have all configs & docs on an USB-pen drive. So in theory boot the CD, work, save your docs/work and go on. Moving office w/o a laptop. PS: no experience with this checked the page though. Rumen
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