[Novalug] Running without a hard drive?
luigi12081@cox.net
luigi12081@cox.net
Wed Nov 22 10:07:04 EST 2006
---- "Ed T. Toton III" <bones@necrobones.net> wrote:
> Thus spake James Ewing Cottrell 3rd:
>
> > But seriously, a CD *is* a disk. Or rather, it is treated like one. At
> > least at the higher levels. So is a flash drive. And so is ROM in
> > embedded systems, which is pretty much what a flash drive is.
>
> Generally, I see CDs as "discs", until they're used as a live-CD, at which
> point I'd consider it to also be a "disk". :)
>
> Although, doesn't "disk" imply read/write access? :)
Well, the ramdisk that the liveCD uses does have read-write access...
>
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