[Grml] Re: Well, blast, I'll have to try that one again.
Michael Gebetsroither
gebi at sbox.tugraz.at
Sun Feb 11 11:15:39 CET 2007
Quoting Mark <27e3kk302 at sneakemail.com>:
> Maybe install2iso and install2disk would work. The real difference is
> that one creates an ISO boot system, the other a normal disk system.
> Any names that make the difference clear would work.
grml2hd and grml2usb are well known and not that wrong that would
justify a namechange.
> USB hard disks win on
> 1. Speed 2. Media lifespan 3. Capacity 4. Cost
Speed, not necessarrily
lifespan, no mtbf of hd's is far lower than from good flash disks.
> Flash sticks win on
> 5. Physical size 6. Physical ruggedness
size, nope think about 0.8" hd's
> Non-volatile mem will someday surpass USB disks on all counts. That
> point is years away. Right now you can't even buy 100 GB flash sticks,
> and if you could, the money would buy a new car....
Flash based hd's are available till 140GB or so.
cu,
Michael
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