You should use as large a size of overlay as possible. I try to use a minimum of 800, if possible. If you do not use all of it, the capacity will go unused, (unless you create a 2nd bootable partition on the stick.)
Shutdown writes to the USB seem to be related to the amount of activity from the session, not to the overlay size. Wait 10-15 seconds, or until the LED stops flashing, before removing the stick or it will corrupt and not reboot. Do not do a yum update or yum install on a small size overlay as you will fill up the stick and make it unbootable. (Downloading large music files and/or pictures to the stick can do this also) Tom Gilliard satellit Sameer Verma wrote: > I found a PNY stick at Best buy that boots Blueberry, in case anyone > is interested (Mel, I should post a link from your blog as well). > http://identi.ca/attachment/9264173 > > When I make the sticks using Windows-based USBCreator, what size > should I use for the overlay? Should I use all available space? As far > as I can tell, the larger the overlay, the longer it will take to > write at shutdown. Is this correct, or is the write time dependent on > what was created in the journal etc.? I have noticed that it takes > longer to create a stick with a larger overlay. > > Any suggestions on "sweet spot" for overlay size would be great. I > have to burn 12 sticks tomorrow ;-) > > cheers, > Sameer > _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
