Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 19:06:13 -0400, Michael Crute wrote: > > 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. >
Yup. Like in three years or so... I've dropped both floppies and CD-RW discs in favor of pendrives (1GB) The down side is: not every computer out there can boot from a USB device. So for some computers, you still have to carry a boot floppy, but I can live with it for now. Regards, Norberto
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