RE: Running Linux on a flash drive

[mjwestkamper]

Good point - FC2, etc is pointed to the desktop/server market.

Did you find a way to restart with re-boot?




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Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 3:27 PM
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Subject: Re: Running Linux on a flash drive


You are in for a long haul starting from FC2, it was not designed for this.
When I need a static image (like for a flash disk), I start with LFS
(http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/).

Its pretty easy and you learn alot.
I even created a version that never writes to flash (uses ramdisks).

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:01:18 -0400, Mike Westkamper
<mjwestkamper(a)weiinc.com&gt; wrote:
>  I am working on making Linux (FC2) run on a flash disk.
>
>  To avoid the write-cycle limits on the flash it must be configured without 
a
>  swap drive and remove any extraneous logging. I have eliminated the
> swap
>  partition, however I am not sure what logs are created and how to 
eliminate
>  them or direct them to /dev/nul. The objective is not to beat the
> flash to
>  death since there is a 1 million write cycle limit.
>
>  I am also trying to make the kernel static, w/o modules, to keep the speed
>  up as the flash is slow. Here my attempts have been less that acceptable. 
I
>  constantly get errors on the build and can't seem to eliminate
> all the
>  modules.
>
>  Finally, to use some sort of sleep mode to avoid the re-boot delay on the
>  re-application of power. Once developed the system will not ever see any
>  different configuration. Here I can't find much information on how to do
>  this.
>
>  Any pointers on any of these subjects will be greatly appreciated. If not
>  already done, I will gladly post a HOW-TO when done.
>
>  Mike
>
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