My struggle with getting small Linux distros installed on my laptop

[William Muriithi]

> > No distro worked well from a USB
> > stick -- slowness was always an issue. I neded up making room on my HD,
> > and I ended up with a very fast system on a 10G partition, not
> > including 2G swap on an SSD drive.
> ...
>
> I've experienced this slowness too.
>
> Since you're willing to use a hard drive, I recommend the Seagate
> Momentus XT.  AFAICT, it's the only hybrid hard drive on the market
> today.
Hmm, there was also a suggestions in this group that Seagate drives are
unreliable because of buggy firmware.  Is this drive free from that issue?

(It's a single 2.5" device which contains magnetic platters
> plus flash memory.  The firmware copies data back and forth as needed
> so that you don't need to worry about it.)  I've used one.  They work
> fine.
>
> If you feel you must install Linux on a USB stick, see Mark Lord's
> aufs ram-to-disk-synchronization toolkit:
> <http://rtr.ca/run_from_ram/>.  I've never tried it, but it worked
> fine when he demonstrated it at Linux Symposium.
>
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