On Tuesday 2009 January 27 13:07:55 Kushal Koolwal wrote: >Does anybody have any experience with installing Debian (say Lenny) on USB > flash drives? Not yet. I am interested in carrying around a Debian installation in the future though. > I would like to install Debian on my PQI 4 GB USB flash drive > but I am not sure which filesystem to use - ext2, ext3, XFS? Probably the best r/w filesystem for flash based devices in JFFS2. >My primary concern/criteria in selecting a fs would be > throughput/performance. JFFS2 should do fairly well there, although I haven't seen any good benchmarks. >I am tried searching around the internet but most of the articles talk about > preparing a LIVE USB flash drive which is *not* what I would like to do. I > just want a plain Debian system on my USB flash drive just like on any IDE > Hard Drive. Live is exactly what you want, but it can't be a direct conversion of a Live CD, since they generally use a r/o squashfs, for the compression. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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