Re: [Hampshire] Debian Etch and Synaptic? Mark II

Andy Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:03:06PM +0000, Jim Kissel wrote:
>> Andy Smith wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 02:31:15PM +0000, Jim Kissel wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to build a Debian system that will fix into 512M flash
>>>> card.
>>> And it needs to run metacity and nautilus?
>
> You didn't answer this bit so I have to assume you really do intend to run a
> full GUI desktop off a flash card.. in which case what are you going
> to do to avoid the limited write cycles of flash?

Use a non-journalling file system like ext2 and turn off the atime bit.
Both Puppy and Damn Small Linux run icewm, jwm, fluxbox GUI's off
flash cards/USB pen/thumb drives.

>
> I run sarge off a 256M CF card, but it runs read only..
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>