On Monday November 19 2007 10:39:26 am Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > It sounds like they are using the flash memory as swap. I have > seen flash memory that was designed to plug into the > motherboard USB header that was advertised to do the same > thing in Vista. If this is what they are doing, then > implementing it in Linux should be a matter of making it a > swap partition/file. > > If you get the motherboard,see if it detects it as a USB > memory drive. If so, and if you are not dual booting, it would > be just a matter of creating a swap partition, (Or making the > entire device one big swap device.) and add a fstab entry for > it. You would want to give it a label, and use that in place > of a device name. You could also do this with a standard "pen" > drive. I am not sure about the life of the device, but it > might be fun to try it with a flash drive you don't mind > loosing. I was wondering about device life as well. It is a little card that has a connector on one end, so, easily replacable, but... I'm seriously considering that laptop as my next, which I will use for video editing in Windows - but, I always set up my laptops as dual boot, hence the curiousity -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
