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