Re: [CentOS] centos 5 and pen drive installation

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On 8/25/06, chrism@xxxxxxxxx <chrism@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I was under the impression that flash memory had a somewhat finite
number of writes (relative to boring old hard disks) before the error
rate started to quickly go south.

You're correct. Distros that boot/install from thumbdrive follow the
liveCD model, like Knoppix. Read all the info and store in RAM. The
media is not written to.
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Francois Caen, RHCE, CCNA
SpiderMaker, LLC
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