On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 19:06:13 -0400, Michael Crute wrote: > Lately I have been doing a lot of traveling and at the moment I don't > have a laptop. Needless to say I run into a lot of crappy computers > (aka computers running Windoze). I typically carry a SLAX cd to remedy > the problem but the downside is I can't save my files unless I > additionally carry around a thumbdrive. I was wondering if anyone has > been able to install Gentoo on a thumbdrive. I assume it could be > treated like a regular hard drive, correct?
Incorrect. Flash memory only has a limited write lifetime, treating it like a hard drive will kill it in no time. However, you're in luck. There is a distro for flash drives that is based on GNOME, Flash Linux. The author gave a presentation on it at the UK Gentoo meeting earlier this year. See http://flashlinux.org.uk/ -- Neil Bothwick If you think that you can truncate my sig to 75 chars, then you can just fu
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