Most of the CF with 8GB are more expense compared to the cheapest 8GB SSD device (IDE, 8GB, MLC, here in Germany 35 Euros). And CF are MLC, at least all the cheap ones! I personally would prefer SLC devices, they last substantially longer compared to MLC devices. I have a phenom II PC with a 64GB SLC disk, 32GB Win XP, 32GB fedora 11 partitions alltogether, no swap (4GB RAM, x86_32). At my opinion, there is no need for swap on machines with several GB RAM. Joerg Am Donnerstag, den 01.10.2009, 13:40 +0200 schrieb Marco Devillers: > (I am using daily digests since this is a high-volume list) > > > Thanks for your responses. > > > Yes the idea is to install a SATA to CF converter as a cheap SSD, > possibly > i'll opt for SSD, but this is just an interesting route I wanted to > take. Boot > speed I dont care about a lot, and I thought it would be interesting > to turn > the MacBook Air into a small embedded device. Its minimal enough for > my needs > as it is. > > > On the issue of how big the disk should be. I use some eye-candy > (svg-icons), > and stick to gcc/Python and vi. No Java, no IDEs. Occasionally I use > inkscape and > Gimp. > > > Am I correct in assuming that 4GB would be proper for the install of > FC10 + dev tools, > and another 4GB as playing space would be enough? > > > As for the memory mounted swap. Until now, I assumed that the kernel > doesnt > function properly without some swap mounted somewhere. So, on a 2GB > machine > I thought I could allocate 256MB just to keep the kernel satisfied. > Did this change in > recent years? If not, it should serve as a development machine, I will > sacrifice memory > for stability here. > > > Which begs another question: if I install a life CD to HD, is that an > installation > of a Life CD (with some of memory mapped disks), or an installation of > FC proper > with a normal layout. Otherwise I'll try the route of going with a CF > (cheap SSD) > and just run an install of Fedora Life on it. Is this an option? > > > Thanks again. > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
