On 8/1/06, Scot Jenkins <scotjenkins at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 8/1/06, Harv Nelson <ai9nl at arrl.net> wrote: > > what is the current lap top of choice for linux. full debian > install. of > > course price will be a prime consideration. I plan to carry it in the > truck > > and use mostly for mobile Ham radio communications. > > > > thanks > > > > Harv > > Shop ebay.com, materialsprocessing.com (surplus store) or ibm.com > ("certified used equipment") for a slightly older Thinkpad. > > Remove the hard drive and get a CF/PCMCIA adapter and as big a > CompactFlash card as you can afford. I believe you can get up to 4 GB > cards now, which should be plenty for linux. I'm running a healthy > Debian install on a 4 GB hard disk partition on my laptop and it's > only using about 2 GB. > > Enter the laptop's BIOS and configure it to boot from PCMCIA. Install > linux to the flash and you have a solid state machine that will fair > much better than any hard drive in a vehicle. > > scot > > If you run your system from a flash card, you should really have a lot of places mounted as tempfs. Areas like, /var/log and /tmp should be tempfs- plus i'm sure there are a few other areas(google it). Plus, no swapfile!!! The reason for this is that the number of writes to flash memory is relatively limited compared to hard drives. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060802/d34e1f84/attachment.htm