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windows booting from gigabyte solid state drive

no biggie, you can book linux from a 32 mb thumb drive/cf card, i use it in a low profile computer with no moving parts, as a router,
 
Originally posted by: TitanDiddly
Originally posted by: kalster
windows sucks, you can book linux from a 32 mb thumb drive/cf card, i use it on a computer with no moving parts, as a router,
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Troll elsewhere.
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why is it trolling, i was just mentioning using an OS off a flash drive is nothing new, people have been using linux on embedded devices/computers off thumb drives/flash cards since quite some time
 
Yup, its fast.

Kalster, I do that too. But you do understand that a CF card is SLOOW compared to a solid state drive. DSL Linux boots fast, yes, but...
 
Originally posted by: kalster
Originally posted by: TitanDiddly
Originally posted by: kalster
windows sucks, you can book linux from a 32 mb thumb drive/cf card, i use it on a computer with no moving parts, as a router,
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Troll elsewhere.
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why is it trolling, i was just mentioning using an OS off a flash drive is nothing new, people have been using linux on embedded devices/computers off thumb drives/flash cards since quite some time
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See bolded. Looks like you edited to save face, though.
 
Originally posted by: TitanDiddly
Originally posted by: kalster
Originally posted by: TitanDiddly
Originally posted by: kalster
windows sucks, you can book linux from a 32 mb thumb drive/cf card, i use it on a computer with no moving parts, as a router,
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Troll elsewhere.
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why is it trolling, i was just mentioning using an OS off a flash drive is nothing new, people have been using linux on embedded devices/computers off thumb drives/flash cards since quite some time
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See bolded. Looks like you edited to save face, though.
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nothing about saving face, I didnt want to say windows suck, that came out wrong, windows is cool for what it does, i have 4-5 sytems running xp
 
Originally posted by: I Saw OJ
My computer doesnt even finish its POST that fast 😛



Seth
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same here. 🙁 I do have an additional hard drive controller that has to boot up too though.
 
Originally posted by: DaFinn
Originally posted by: placebo139
Wow, that's fast.
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I dunno... maybe @ Gigabyte pages??? Or your dear AT Text

EDIT, Damn you edited it fast... (original was about info on this thingy) 😛
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LOL. Yeah, I found it almost immediately. I guess I was just lazy 😛.
 
Originally posted by: Squisher
Not that pricey, $130 for the board and $70 for the ram.

$200 for faster boot ups.........hmmm.
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you need at least 2 gigs for xp

thats about $120 at newegg
 
How much would you need for a complete XP Pro, with a lot of addons, skins, konfabulator widgets, etc. and the like? Could you hold all of that on 4GB?
 
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