On Du, 15 iul 12, 21:55:51, Loic J. Duros wrote: > Thanks so much for your answer! > > On 07/14/2012 08:00 PM, Brian wrote: > >>Use extlinux/syslinux by all means if you wish, but being able boot a > >>USB stick on any computer is certainly possible. > Great! I tried again! This time I specified /dev/sdb1/ to set grub, > and now I can boot from the USB flashdrive. /dev/sdb (a.k.a the MBR not the partition would have been better, but at least it works. > One question though: I have 8G of RAM at work so I don't think not > having a swap an issue. Nevertheless, it seems like things freeze a > little bit when there's a lot of read/write on the flashdrive. So I > thought maybe you'd have some advice on how to optimize the actual > use of the OS on the flashdrive. I should have access to the Windows > partition of the harddrive there, so maybe it would be wise to move > some files there? I wonder if the use of the /tmp directory in the > flashdrive slows down the UI when using certain programs. Maybe I > could move it and some other key directories to the windows > harddrive? > > Anything you'd like to recommend? :-) If you know of good > documentation or resource on this, it would be great as well! > Thanks! I'd recommend using tmpfs for /tmp (especially with that huge RAM of yours). Depending on the version of Debian there are different ways to set it up. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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