[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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