• Best OS to be booted of a flash drive?
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[QUOTE=Shanethe13;25973245]Go with Arch. It's small, and awesome.[/QUOTE] Screenshots? :buddy:
[QUOTE=Warship;25973271]Screenshots? :buddy:[/QUOTE] what?
You choose the window manager etc. yourself with Arch, so it looks like you want it to look, thus screenshots are pointless.
DSL :buddy:
[QUOTE=nikomo;25973370]You choose the window manager etc. yourself with Arch, so it looks like you want it to look, thus screenshots are pointless.[/QUOTE] Hmm. Can I use Gnome? Or is there something better?
Dos 1.0?
[QUOTE=Surma;25973598]Dos 1.0?[/QUOTE] :downs:
[QUOTE=Warship;25973544]Hmm. Can I use Gnome? Or is there something better?[/QUOTE] You can use anything you want. You could use GNOME. You could also use KDE. I recommend posting in the general linux thread in the Linux subsection, most people over there run Arch and they can tell what choice you have available. I don't run Arch myself, can't be arsed to set it up.
[QUOTE=nikomo;25973766]You can use anything you want. You could use GNOME. You could also use KDE. I recommend posting in the general linux thread in the Linux subsection, most people over there run Arch and they can tell what choice you have available. I don't run Arch myself, can't be arsed to set it up.[/QUOTE] Mkay. Just saw a video of Arch with gnome. I think that's what I will use.... If I'm not satisfied with Arch for some reason, do any of you have a suggestion for something else?
[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/s/0i0v6034vvq4g19/Capture.PNG[/img] Which one? I am confuse. [editline]10th November 2010[/editline] Nvm, I think I will install Ubuntu instead...Seems to complicated to install Arch
[QUOTE=Warship;25973911][img_thumb]https://dl.dropbox.com/s/0i0v6034vvq4g19/Capture.PNG[/img_thumb] Which one? I am confuse. [editline]10th November 2010[/editline] Nvm, I think I will install Ubuntu instead...Seems to complicated to install Arch[/QUOTE] Go read the beginners guide? Maybe that will help you out. Don't just go running away because there is something you don't understand. Then you won't learn about it, and probably not benefit from all the goodies it comes with.
[QUOTE=Ayra;25975028]Go read the beginners guide? Maybe that will help you out. Don't just go running away because there is something you don't understand. Then you won't learn about it, and probably not benefit from all the goodies it comes with.[/QUOTE] Well, I tried reading the guide about installing Arch to a USB flash drive, and it just told me as the first step to go "grab an Arch cd". I mean, I would like to see Arch in action and try it out and all that...It's just that as far as I can see, the app support isn't as big as the one Ubuntu's got. Also, I really like Ubuntu Netbook remix' gui (Aka Unity), and I am a whole lot more familiar with Ubuntu.
[QUOTE=Warship;25977118]Well, I tried reading the guide about installing Arch to a USB flash drive, and it just told me as the first step to go "grab an Arch cd". I mean, I would like to see Arch in action and try it out and all that...It's just that as far as I can see, the app support isn't as big as the one Ubuntu's got. Also, I really like Ubuntu Netbook remix' gui (Aka Unity), and I am a whole lot more familiar with Ubuntu.[/QUOTE] Top one Downloads the newest stable packages off the internet, while installing Bottom one uses those in the image file (if they're there) Unless your Internet is unstable, go with the top one.
[QUOTE=Warship;25973093]Oh, btw the flash drive read speed is ~20MB/s and the write speed is ~18MB/s How fast is a normal HDD?[/QUOTE] ~300MB/s+
[QUOTE=Fizzadar;25977220]~300MB/s+[/QUOTE] Uhh, SSDs get around 275MB/s, think again. [editline]10th November 2010[/editline] HDDs usually do around ~100MB/s
[QUOTE=Kialtia;25977313]Uhh, SSDs get around 275MB/s, think again. [editline]10th November 2010[/editline] HDDs usually do around ~100MB/s[/QUOTE] Once saw a 1GB/s SSD. I nerdgasm'd
[QUOTE=Warship;25977643]Once saw a 1GB/s SSD. I nerdgasm'd[/QUOTE] I call bullshit. Fastest I've seen is 730MB/s and that's on PCI-E, and boy is it ever expensive. Even then on sustained writes, it will never be THAT fast.
[QUOTE=DaDillsta;25977705]I call bullshit. Fastest I've seen is 730MB/s and that's on PCI-E, and boy is it ever expensive. Even then on sustained writes, it will never be THAT fast.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/solid-state-drives/pci-express/z-drive-r2/mlc-performance-series/ocz-z-drive-r2-p88-pci-express-ssd.html[/url]
I had Arch Linux on my Eee PC which has a 4gb SSD and I had room to spare. So yeah, Arch is good for that kind of stuff.
ChromiumOS [url]http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/[/url] I know it's been mentioned, but it's good enough to be mentioned at least three times in any thread. [img_thumb]http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/res/img/screen2.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/res/img/screen1.jpg[/img_thumb]
voting for Sidux
When I try to install arch with UNetbootin I always get The wrong volume is in the drive. Please insert volume ARCH into drive K: Drive K: is ARCH Whats up with it
Hope it's a decent fast flash drive.
[QUOTE=cosmic duck;25979729]ChromiumOS [url]http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/[/url] I know it's been mentioned, but it's good enough to be mentioned at least three times in any thread. [img_thumb]http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/res/img/screen2.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/res/img/screen1.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] Is there any way to use this without a Mac? The .img file isn't working for me.
Also I like Linux Mint.
[QUOTE=DaDillsta;25981940]Is there any way to use this without a Mac? The .img file isn't working for me.[/QUOTE] .img is just a disk image, put it on your flash drive
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;25982015].img is just a disk image, put it on your flash drive[/QUOTE] Yes but it won't mount in Daemon Tools, VirtualBox or open in WinRAR or PowerISO. I would just burn it but it's more work that way and it seems to be the only way to get it working. I can't just stick an IMG file on a flash drive and have it boot can I?
[QUOTE=DaDillsta;25982061]Yes but it won't mount in Daemon Tools, VirtualBox or open in WinRAR or PowerISO. I would just burn it but it's more work that way and it seems to be the only way to get it working. I can't just stick an IMG file on a flash drive and have it boot can I?[/QUOTE] Maybe it's corrupt?
If you had Linux you'd just use dd. [editline]10th November 2010[/editline] But maybe you should read this: [url]http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/wiki/doku.php?id=windows_instructions[/url]
I have Linux on my laptop, I might test it there. I don't think it corrupted since the actual .rar isn't corrupted but I could be wrong.
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