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Re: [LUG] Running Ubuntu from a USB Stick

 

Tom Potts wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 August 2008 10:23, Grant Sewell wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:53:07 +0100, Brown Richard wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Has anybody done this please? And once it is done is it possible to
>>> use it to install ubuntu?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Rich
>>>       
>> Hi Rich,
>>
>> It is possible, and it is quite easy.  What is not straight-forward,
>> however, is tuning a standard Ubuntu install for USB flash-drive operation.
>>  Because of the way they're made, flash drives' lifespan shortens with
>> write actions - the more you write to the device, the quicker it will die.
>> There are some things you can do (such as mounting the / volume with the
>> "noatime" option) to alleviate this.
>>     
> I'm getting old - whats the diff between SSD and flash
> Tom te tom te tom
>   
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive#Architecture_and_function


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