[Novalug] Linux Live CD question

[Ed James]

*If* you can boot from the thumb drive, you might extend its life by
using a RAM disk for some file dirs, such as /tmp and log files (if
you don't really care about the log files).

I'd love to do this on my P-III, so that I could actually put the
HD to sleep overnight.  Something keeps hitting it every 4 or so
seconds, and sleep won't take.  But, I believe my BIOS won't allow
a thumbdrive boot, and I fear even trying to upgrade the BIOS.

Sounds like a kewl experiment though.

Ed James

Quoting Tester Tester <testert555 at gmail.com>:

> All,
> I have a junked G4 Powerbook that has been stripped of most functional
> parts.  I was thinking of systematically putting it back together to run
> Linux.  At this point, I don't know what is and is not running.
>
> It has no hard drive or cd drive.  Is it possible to load a distro to a
> thumb drive and run off that?
> What kind of life expectancy can I expect to get from a thumb drive?  I know
> a thumb drive has a limited number of writes, but other then the image, I'm
> not writing to it,  am I?  I'm not looking to make it a work horse.  This
> more an exercise in resurrecting a dead laptop.
>
> CTM
>