Good point - FC2, etc is pointed to the desktop/server market. Did you find a way to restart with re-boot? -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of David Martin Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 3:27 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Running Linux on a flash drive You are in for a long haul starting from FC2, it was not designed for this. When I need a static image (like for a flash disk), I start with LFS (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/). Its pretty easy and you learn alot. I even created a version that never writes to flash (uses ramdisks). On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:01:18 -0400, Mike Westkamper <mjwestkamper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I am working on making Linux (FC2) run on a flash disk. > > To avoid the write-cycle limits on the flash it must be configured without a > swap drive and remove any extraneous logging. I have eliminated the swap > partition, however I am not sure what logs are created and how to eliminate > them or direct them to /dev/nul. The objective is not to beat the flash to > death since there is a 1 million write cycle limit. > > I am also trying to make the kernel static, w/o modules, to keep the speed > up as the flash is slow. Here my attempts have been less that acceptable. I > constantly get errors on the build and can't seem to eliminate all the > modules. > > Finally, to use some sort of sleep mode to avoid the re-boot delay on the > re-application of power. Once developed the system will not ever see any > different configuration. Here I can't find much information on how to do > this. > > Any pointers on any of these subjects will be greatly appreciated. If not > already done, I will gladly post a HOW-TO when done. > > Mike > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- -- David L. Martin Roving: dlmarti@xxxxxxxxx Home: kc2lcf@xxxxxxxx Work: dlmarti@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
