On Mon 16 Jul 2012 at 09:35:20 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 15 iul 12, 21:55:51, Loic J. Duros wrote: > > > > Great! I tried again! This time I specified /dev/sdb1/ to set grub, > > and now I can boot from the USB flashdrive. > > /dev/sdb (a.k.a the MBR not the partition would have been better, but at > least it works.
Might the OP be referring to 'set root=/dev/sdb1' in grub.cfg? > > One question though: I have 8G of RAM at work so I don't think not > > having a swap an issue. Nevertheless, it seems like things freeze a > > little bit when there's a lot of read/write on the flashdrive. So I > > thought maybe you'd have some advice on how to optimize the actual > > use of the OS on the flashdrive. I should have access to the Windows > > partition of the harddrive there, so maybe it would be wise to move > > some files there? I wonder if the use of the /tmp directory in the > > flashdrive slows down the UI when using certain programs. Maybe I > > could move it and some other key directories to the windows > > harddrive? > > > > Anything you'd like to recommend? :-) If you know of good > > documentation or resource on this, it would be great as well! > > Thanks! > > I'd recommend using tmpfs for /tmp (especially with that huge RAM of > yours). Depending on the version of Debian there are different ways to > set it up. Isn't /tmp on tmpfs done automatically on installation? As for the slight slowdown with a lot of read/writes, this might simply be the nature of the medium compared with a hard disk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120716105633.GE19079@desktop
