On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Gordon Charrick <gordonmc@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Does anyone have a way to install onto an SD card? I have been able to install on a USB stick but the installer doesn't see an SD card as a device to install onto. > That is because installing onto an SD card is not a good idea seeing as SD cards are not intended for as many read/write operations as an OS would need. > > I don't want this to be setup as one of those "live" distributions where you have your static part and then an overlay where you save any changes. I want the SD card to act as a hard drive (although a pretty slow one) where it'll have a /, /boot, and swap partitions. > Again not likely a good Idea with the live image you have a Hardware layer that adapts to changing hardware however when you install as a regular instance the kernel runs based on hardware present at the time of install. Meaning if you did this and put the card in a new computer with completely different hardware you might run into some nasty hardware issues. SD cards were and are not met to have high data transfers they are intended for things like a Digi Cam to quickly save a file a few mb possibly in size and then stop what you are suggesting would mean frequent writes and reads on the card in excess of 5mb a second in some cases. Can it be done? Possibly however most people would recomend against it Thanks, Andrew Jamison -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
