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Re: [Fwd: Re: [opensuse] boot from USB without USB choice in bios]
- From: ka1ifq <ka1ifq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 07:22:36 -0400
- Message-id: <200710010722.36747.ka1ifq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Sunday 30 September 2007 00:14, Jerry Houston wrote:
> <sigh> Sent as a reply, not a "reply all." Sorry -- this is the only
> list I've been on for years that works this way.
>
>
> What he said. If the idea is to boot from a system on a USB key,
> where's your swap partition going to be?
>
> I found out when I tried to put a Win-XP VM on a 16 GB USB key just how
> slow those are compared with ordinary disk access. I mean, I already
> knew that, but it wasn't really obvious just *how* bad it was until I
> could see controls and buttons on an application getting drawn one at a
> time.
>
Check info on embeded systems. From what I have read the usb stick or cf card
holds your 'system' but boots up running in ram, and the swap is setup as a
ramdisk.
Mike
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> <sigh> Sent as a reply, not a "reply all." Sorry -- this is the only
> list I've been on for years that works this way.
>
>
> What he said. If the idea is to boot from a system on a USB key,
> where's your swap partition going to be?
>
> I found out when I tried to put a Win-XP VM on a 16 GB USB key just how
> slow those are compared with ordinary disk access. I mean, I already
> knew that, but it wasn't really obvious just *how* bad it was until I
> could see controls and buttons on an application getting drawn one at a
> time.
>
Check info on embeded systems. From what I have read the usb stick or cf card
holds your 'system' but boots up running in ram, and the swap is setup as a
ramdisk.
Mike
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