dvisor
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Posted: July 11 2005,08:46 |
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Hi
Please excuse my ignorance if these questions seem basic, but I'm new to Linux and DSL, and having trouble putting all the info together.
I have put together a mini-ITX machine with a CD-ROM, 256 Mb RAM, and a 128Mb compactflash on an IDE converter - no hard disk. Apart from the CD, this machine is dead silent as it has no fans at all. Booting from the CD works well, as does performing a frugal install to the CF card and booting from that.
The problem is that I have just heard that CF cards only stand a limited number of writes, so I'm a little concerned about the caching, and backups etc. When I re-ran the frugal install I specified "toram" as the only boot option to speed things up a little, and thought that this would prevent writes to the CF. However, when I change the Firefox homepage etc and make a few other modifications, these changes are remembered the next time I boot - so it must still be writing to the CF.
Could someone recommend the best way of performing a frugal install, please? I would like to make a few modifications the first time I run it from the CF (such as setting up Sylpheed, homepage, and installing a couple of MyDSL extensions), but after that, I would like it completely read only.
Many thanks
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