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From: notbob on 15 Jan 2010 11:26
On 2010-01-15, Ed Wilson <ewilson(a)jackmaxton.com> wrote:

> How many flash drives do you own?

Two 8G cruzer's. One IS and will remain vfat for use with both M$ and
linux systems. The other will be dedicated to all things linux, never
to see a potentially polluted M$ box. I'll probably make it an ext2
device.

> The last time I installed from USB I used
> two, one with the USB boot image, and the other had everything using the
> same directory structure as the DVD. There is probably a way to have
> everything on one flash drive but I have not tried that since I have
> multiple flash drives.

Why you can't jes burn the img to the key and make it like a bootable
iso DVD, I don't know yet. Lotta info out there and I'm jes getting
started. No problem. I'm slow, but tenacious. ;)

nb
From: Joe on 15 Jan 2010 11:49
notbob wrote on 01/15/10 08:26:

> On 2010-01-15, Ed Wilson <ewilson(a)jackmaxton.com> wrote:
>
>> How many flash drives do you own?
>
> Two 8G cruzer's. One IS and will remain vfat for use with both M$ and
> linux systems. The other will be dedicated to all things linux, never
> to see a potentially polluted M$ box. I'll probably make it an ext2
> device.
>
>> The last time I installed from USB I used
>> two, one with the USB boot image, and the other had everything using the
>> same directory structure as the DVD. There is probably a way to have
>> everything on one flash drive but I have not tried that since I have
>> multiple flash drives.
>
> Why you can't jes burn the img to the key and make it like a bootable
> iso DVD,


Sure you can. There are tools out there to just do that.
I used that to get an Ubuntu-based distro on my Eee (I didn't know there is
Slack optimized for the Eee out there...)

-Joe

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From: notbob on 15 Jan 2010 12:16
On 2010-01-15, Joe <joe(a)mailinator.com> wrote:
> Sure you can. There are tools out there to just do that.

But yer gonna make me work fer it, ainchya, ya little dickens!

lol....

not-to-be-detered
From: JohnF on 15 Jan 2010 16:04
Peter Chant <peteRE(a)mpeteozilla.vco.uke> wrote:
> I do not use swap on my eee, I've the SSD drive so I don't want to
> prematurely age it. Pete

I thought real SSD's didn't suffer from that wear levelling problem,
only memory-stick-type devices. Am I wrong about that?
--
John Forkosh ( mailto: j(a)f.com where j=john and f=forkosh )
From: goarilla on 15 Jan 2010 17:54
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:50:38 +1000, Res wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Robert Komar wrote:
>
>> notbob <notbob(a)nothome.com> wrote:
>>> Why? Why would I use LVM? I've looked it up in wikipedia and, well,
>>> so what? My eee has a 160G HDD and the most I've dealt with are 60G
>>> HDDs. Gotten by jes fine without it so far. What is LVM good for? Do
>>> I really need it?
>>
>> You probably don't really need it if you don't already know what it's
>> for. Logical Volume Manager lets you pull multiple disks into a single
>> volume, that you can then partition in any way you like (even easily
>> stripe the data across disks for RAID0 performance). The partitions
>
> software raid is its original and real name, and its hopelessly slow
> compared to hardware raid, and i'd never use raid0, at least if a disk
> dies, you still have data on your other disks that its 100% clean if you
> use separate disks for different partitions, i'd only use hardware raid,
> and only ever raid 10 at that.

in some/most cases software raid is a hell of a lot
http://www.linux.com/news/hardware/servers/8222-benchmarking-hardware-raid-
vs-linux-kernel-software-raid
faster than hw raid ... and it's portable eg
if your hardware-controller dies you'll have to prey !
and hope they either still make it or the new ones are compatible and even
then a dying hw raid controller can wreak unrecoverable havoc.

offcourse if your system becomes loaded
hw raid is a major benefit. staggered spin
ups is also a big benefit on hw raid's
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