There&#39;s info out there on how to prevent excessive writes.&nbsp; Google for Linux 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><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 10, 2008 2:15 PM, James Sissel &lt;<a href="mailto:jimsissel@yahoo.com">jimsissel@yahoo.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
What about the limitation on how many times you can delete information before the device wears out (thinking of things like the /tmp and /var partitions/directories)?<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><b><i>Brian Kelsay &lt;&gt;
</i></b> wrote:  </div></div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">You should be using Kubuntu 7.10 for one thing over 7.04.&nbsp;&nbsp; I had problems with 
7.04 and the one before.&nbsp; The last good one for me was 6.06.1 LTS.<br><br><a href="http://puppylinux.com/flash-puppy.htm" target="_blank">http://puppylinux.com/flash-puppy.htm </a><br><br>Boot from a LiveCD of Puppy, from &quot;Setup&quot; menu you will find an entry called &quot;Puppy Universal Installer&quot;. Select that, and follow the simple instructions.
<br>or<br>Boot from a LiveCD of Puppy, use ISOMaster and extract the 3 files: initrd.gz, vmlinuz and pup_xxx.sfs.&nbsp; Copy those to your USB drive manually.&nbsp; You will probably have to mount the drive first.&nbsp; ( <a href="http://puppylinux.com/flash-puppy.htm" target="_blank">
http://puppylinux.com/flash-puppy.htm</a> )&nbsp; Follow the&nbsp; caveats and stuff.&nbsp; They recommend this method only for an upgrade of an existing USB Puppy system. <br><br><span style="font-style: italic;"><br></span><br>  <div class="gmail_quote">
On Jan 10, 2008 12:53 PM, Oren Beck &lt;&gt; wrote:<br>  <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Last night I got an Excalibur EXC4:4 gb usb microdrive .
<br>At $19.99 it was a must buy of sorts. <br>One intended assignment is a portable bootable Linux drive.<br>Anyone want to show off their &quot;Least Steps&quot; methods to install Puppy or other small Linux onto this? <br>
Both for someone who does NOT have a linux box and /or from Kubuntu 7.04.<br><br>Thanks in advance<br><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br>Oren Beck<br><br></font></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></div>
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