On Monday November 19 2007 10:39:26 am Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
It sounds like they are using the flash memory as swap. I have
seen flash memory that was designed to plug into the
motherboard USB header that was advertised to do the same
thing in Vista. If this is what they are doing, then
implementing it in Linux should be a matter of making it a
swap partition/file.
If you get the motherboard,see if it detects it as a USB
memory drive. If so, and if you are not dual booting, it would
be just a matter of creating a swap partition, (Or making the
entire device one big swap device.) and add a fstab entry for
it. You would want to give it a label, and use that in place
of a device name. You could also do this with a standard "pen"
drive. I am not sure about the life of the device, but it
might be fun to try it with a flash drive you don't mind
loosing.
I was wondering about device life as well. It is a little card
that has a connector on one end, so, easily replacable, but...
I'm seriously considering that laptop as my next, which I will
use for video editing in Windows - but, I always set up my
laptops as dual boot, hence the curiousity
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Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA