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, Per Jessen wrote: John Heinen wrote:
Is a possible to install, erase and install a different op program such open suse, ubuntu or kubuntu, puppy linnux, on a flash drive Yes. There are specialized distros for that purpose - a regular distro would quickly kill the flash drive with write operations. Not modern flash. Especially not if connected via USB 2.0. Writing continuously at full USB 2.0 speeds, it will take nearly a decade to wear out a 1G drive that does wear-leveling. Is that commonly found in plain 8-16G USB flash sticks?
Yes. It's found in virtually every flash device that's been manufactured for a number of years. It's the only way to make them have a reasonable lifetime when they are using a FAT file system (or, really, most non-mtd-device specific file systems). If your device supports full USB 2.0 speeds, it probably has wear-leveling. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/