On Sunday 30 September 2007 00:14, Jerry Houston wrote: > <sigh> Sent as a reply, not a "reply all." Sorry -- this is the only > list I've been on for years that works this way. >
> > What he said. If the idea is to boot from a system on a USB key, > where's your swap partition going to be? > > I found out when I tried to put a Win-XP VM on a 16 GB USB key just how > slow those are compared with ordinary disk access. I mean, I already > knew that, but it wasn't really obvious just *how* bad it was until I > could see controls and buttons on an application getting drawn one at a > time. > Check info on embeded systems. From what I have read the usb stick or cf card holds your 'system' but boots up running in ram, and the swap is setup as a ramdisk. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
