HD Install :: partition sizes

The reason I,m asking is I have a flash disk 40 pin idle adapter,with flash card
acts as a slave or master hard drive.I saw a guy at a LUG,s meeting running
a real mini system off a 256MB jus like the one I,ve got.I,ve haven,t been able
to catch him again but would like get my adapter to do the same.

If you're asking about how large a swap partition should be on a compact flash card, then my answer would be don't do it. As I understand flash technology, there is a limitted number of times that a flash card may be written to before it becomes corrupted. A swap partition usually does a lot of writes every minute, and would therefore significantly reduce the life of the CF card. So I don't suggest placing a swap partition on a CF card.

OK I should a swap.To use as just a hard drive,how should it be done?? I know
it work,s ,I saw one running.I haven,t done a DSL H/D install just used it from
the CD and sorry to be so dumb on it but have no ideal how they setup this
little adapters.

You can create a small swap partition on any harddrive and the "LiveCD" will autodetect it and start using it, even if it is running from a pendrive

Brian
AwPhuch

Also depending on the RAM on the system you're making, you could just not have a swap part at all. I usually run my HDD installed DSL on my 200MMX/64MB without swap - I usually only need it when running Gimp and Firefox together.

I'd say if you've got more than 128Mb RAM you should be able to live swap free, if you wanted to.

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