Mark Phillips wrote: > I think that the OS is NOT picking up the USB stick for it's own use. > > I'll try the /dev/hda approach rather than /dev/sda but I thought the > whole point of using s CF card and USB combo was that the CF card was > write cycle limited as well as pretty slow. >
You really think that a USB drive is going to be faster? The number of writes that make it to a CF card are somewhat limited. I would be surprised if you got less than several years of use from a Sandisk CF card of reasonable size (1GB or larger). With the wear leveling mechanisms, you should be good covered for a much longer period. There was some discussion about this on the Soekris mailing list late last week or early this week--it all blends together these days. With the runnix/unionfs model you should be fine with the one device. The OS upgrade was the biggest reason for using two devices in the past. By removing the 'dd' install method and only requiring copying a few files to the 'os' directory, the unionfs (and optionally keydisk) partitions can remain through upgrades without problem. Darrick ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
