fedora on a flash drive

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 14:31 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
> Q1: Do you think it's too crazy a project to fly? :-)

It's not like it hasn't been done before. No names spring to mind, but
I'm sure it has been.

> Q2:
> Ideally, /etc should be on the Flash, along with other config-specific
> directories. Flash has a problem with being written too often, but all
> configs must stay on the Flash for reasons mentioned above.
> Actual question: which directories would you put on the Flash in such a
> situation? (besides /etc)

/bin and /sbin. /dev goes on a RAM drive and use udev or run MAKEDEV in
the initrd.

> Also, /etc has some files which are written to quite often. How would
> you get rid of those?

Symlinks to the hard drive or a RAM drive.

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
http://fedora.ivazquez.net/
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