<div><br>I would say since those thumbdrives are solid state, theoretically they should last forever, barring fire, flood, act of God, or static discharge . . </div>
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<div>I'd like to do that myself, get an 8 GB thumb and install SuSE on it and run it on the St. Joe library machines, completely bypassing their native o/s. I don't think they'd like it unless I could prove to them it wouldn't muck up something in Windoze (version of the week).
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<div>Gary Hildebrand</div>
<div>St. Joe, MO<br> </div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br><br>From: "Brian Kelsay" <<a href="mailto:ripcrd@gmail.com">ripcrd@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: Installing Linux to a 4gb usb microdrive
<br><br>There's info out there on how to prevent excessive writes. Google for Linux<br>on a CF.<br><br><a href="http://pendrivelinux.com/">http://pendrivelinux.com/</a><br>In Linux disable the swap and use the no atime option in your fstab.
<br>Turn off logging or log to a remote server.<br>Brian<br><br></blockquote></div>