[CentOS] centos 5 and pen drive installation

Francois Caen frcaen at gmail.com
Sun Aug 27 22:05:24 UTC 2006


On 8/25/06, chrism at imntv.com <chrism at imntv.com> wrote:
> I was under the impression that flash memory had a somewhat finite
> number of writes (relative to boring old hard disks) before the error
> rate started to quickly go south.

You're correct. Distros that boot/install from thumbdrive follow the
liveCD model, like Knoppix. Read all the info and store in RAM. The
media is not written to.
-- 
Francois Caen, RHCE, CCNA
SpiderMaker, LLC



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