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Why do peope boot from memory cards? What are the advantages?

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Much more space for OS and apps. Less wear of the internal flash memory (cards can be changed, internal flash can't). You can have different systems on different cards - i.e. one with KDE, one plain. Maybe quicker to boot - didn't test, though. And you carry a clean system on the internal flash as an emergency backup in case your system booting from card gets corrupted.

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Cool! So where do I learn how to get started booting from a mem card?

Ed

Originally Posted by debernardis View Post
Much more space for OS and apps. Less wear of the internal flash memory (cards can be changed, internal flash can't). You can have different systems on different cards - i.e. one with KDE, one plain. Maybe quicker to boot - didn't test, though. And you carry a clean system on the internal flash as an emergency backup in case your system booting from card gets corrupted.

Other thoughts?
 
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And while I have been very very poor about any new updates.. my blog in my signature link has a very easy to follow how-to for dual booting.
 
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