On 9/26/07, Michael Wiktowy <michael.wiktowy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > This may be obvious to some but it wasn't to me so I thought that I > would pass it along just in case it helps someone else. > > I have an old laptop that is having issues trying to run any recent > LiveCD (Dell Latitude 700MHz with 128 MB RAM) because it does not meet > the minimum recommended system requirements. This makes it kind of > difficult to use some of the more recent utilities contained on those > CDs for data recovery, forensics, troubleshooting, etc. where you > don't want to put a swap partition on the built-in drive. > > I also have a bunch of redundant 256 MB USB thumb drives which sit > unused since multi-gig sticks are cheap as dirt now. > > I was able to get the old laptop to run the recent LiveCDs by > formatting the thumb drive as a linux swap partition and using it > during boot. Recent LiveCDs will recognize and use the swap partition > on the USB stick and allow you to completely load the desktop. > > It is not a quick boot ... but it might make the difference between > working and not. I would certainly recommend a LiveCD that uses XFCE > by default. > > There are many other ways of doing this but this is a simple one that > keeps two things out of the dumpster. > > /Mike Doesn't using the flash drive as a swap disk shorten its life span?
