[CentOS] centos 5 and pen drive installation

Fri Aug 25 23:42:17 UTC 2006
chrism at imntv.com <chrism at imntv.com>

Jerry Geis wrote:
> hi,
>
> has there been any advanced features leaked about centos 5
> being able to install on a pen drive or thumbdrive.
>
> I've got a little application that would be great in the environment.

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.  Is that no longer the case?  If not, 
flash ram and thumb drives are ridiculously cheap these days.  I just 
picked up a 2gig miniSD card for my mobile phone for about US$40.  That 
seems like *plenty* of space for a non-X server install with no moving 
parts and low power consumption.  :-)

Cheers,