Joshua Myer wrote on Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 01:03:45PM -0500 : > > > > Is it possible to boot from USB storage? > This is dependent on your BIOS, not on your OS. IIRC, Linux had some > support for a USB storage root fs, but i don't know what the current > state is.
The only state I forsee is _slow_. A flat out balls to the wall copy from a local filesystem to a usb filesystem across a USB 1.1 bus proceeds at a rate of about 1 MB per minute. I just see that being horrifically slow, especially when people are used to ATA100 or ATA133 speeds. Hell, a plain old fashioned IDE controller runs faster than that. Now USB 2.0 will be interesting if it can sustain the throughput that it's rated at. Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.19-18mdkenterprise
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