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Re: run debian off usb flash drive



On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 08:25:50PM -0500, Jeff Johnston wrote:
> With 512 MB and 1 GB USB flash drives becoming cheaper and cheaper I'm
> thinking that it would be a fantastic way to have a boot drive with no
> moving parts that could (almost) never die of old age.

Just a side note: They'll probably die a lot quicker than your hard drive,
given that you're not mounting them read-only. Those things have a more or
less fixed number of writes before they start to break.

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