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Post by oscarb75 on Oct 30, 2022 15:15:03 GMT
I´ve got and old Acer Netbook and I am looking for a light OS to install.
The small problem is that I do not have the possibility to install an HD on this laptop, because a proprietary internal cable is missing, and, of course, it is expensive.
The alternative would be SD card or USB stick.
I´ve read that it would be better to choose an OS running completely in RAM, in order to avoid continuous writes to the SD card.
Would it be safe enough to install Bodhi?
Wich other distro shoud I try? ( I´ve already tried Puppy Linux ).
How do the RaspberryP dedicated Linux distro solve this problem?
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Post by Hippytaff on Oct 30, 2022 20:54:39 GMT
Hi oscarb75 You can use these instructions www.bodhilinux.com/w/ventoy/to create a persistent usb using ventoy. We are in the process of looking into creating an arm version of Bodhi which would run on pi, though for a standard processor the standard ISOs Work fine on ssd. |
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Post by knut on Oct 30, 2022 22:39:11 GMT
Hi oscarb75
The Raspberry Pi OSes are usually installed on the SD card and use it like any other system would use the internal storage.
So far that has never caused a problem for me, while running a small home server from it.
My guess would be that the cautions against installing on the SD are overemphasizing a possible problem, similarly as some people still do not trust SSDs for storage, both because they have in theory an absolute limit of possible writes.
I write "in theory", because in practice it seems that SSDs and SDs that die, do so out of a number of reasons, but rarely because they have reached that limit.
So to install Bodhi on the SD card would not be unsafer than what how nearly every user of a Pi uses their device.
But: storage media die, one way or another.
The only way to be safe against that is to have a solid backup strategy that you actually use.
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Post by R0bur on Oct 31, 2022 13:15:22 GMT
Wich other distro shoud I try? ( I´ve already tried Puppy Linux ). You can try Slax ( www.slax.org/). It is light and can be configured to run from the USB Flash drive in read-only mode. |
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Post by oscarb75 on Oct 31, 2022 13:38:47 GMT
Wich other distro shoud I try? ( I´ve already tried Puppy Linux ). You can try Slax ( www.slax.org/). It is light and can be configured to run from the USB Flash drive in read-only mode. I am going to try it before installing Bodhi. Thanks for the tip. |
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Post by thunderbird on Nov 2, 2022 14:58:58 GMT
Just spotted this thread and it pretty much matches what I have been trying.
Mate came round and saw Bodhi on my old Toshiba and was well impressed. When out and about he and the Mrs share a 10 year old Dell laptop that (just) runs Win 11, his is wife OK with this but mate getting annoyed at its speed. To avoid upsetting wife he does not wish to change the laptop in anyway so I suggested he try a distribution with persistence on a USB stick such as Puppy or Porteus (both of which I have tried) or Slax (which I have not tried) but read nice things about.
So armed with a 64 gb USB stick I installed Puppy, what have they done to it. 10 years ago it worked great on a CD with the persistence file saved on the laptop, now with a much better laptop and a usb way faster than any CD it struggled to work.
So tried Porteus. Worked fine for 3 boots, but lack of support for a UK keyboard made it pretty much unusable. On the 3rd boot it lost the will to live, gave up again.
Tried Slax Debian version. Vey similar result to Porteus, not what I expected, not able to print, gave up yet again.
On Monday I thought that since RasPi OS seems to work fine on a SD card would Bodhi. But first I decided to try installing it on the 64 gb USB stick expecting it to be a bit slower. Slow was not the word, took 4 hours to install and 5 minutes to boot then virtually unusable. So I dug out a class 10 64 gb SD card and installed Bodhi on via an old card reader of unknown USB spec and USB 2 cable. Took 10 minutes to install, no issues. Boots in about 50 seconds (including logging in) which is not much slower than the SSD I normally use. Created user and I installed Gparted, DOSFSTOOLS, GUFW, set up printer, did all 231 updates and did the PPA update for Libre Office to 7.4 all without issue. Note than this is the Appack version and not the standard.
Its surprised me, over to the mate now.
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Post by oscarb75 on Dec 18, 2022 19:24:19 GMT
[...]Slow was not the word, took 4 hours to install and 5 minutes to boot then virtually unusable.[...] I had the same bad experience. I´ve tried to install Bodhi on two SD cards, but the installation took 2-3 hours and at the end it did not boot. Same problem with Antix. It works without problem with live version of both distro, but it is not what I am looking for. I am going to give a try with a new SD card ( with better performance ) and I am also curious about Ventoy. If someone could install Bodhi on SD card ( with or without Ventoy ), did you get acceptable performances? |
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