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  • Subject: Re: [BL] 486 Laptops/Gmail on BL (was: USB modem and wireless<blah>)
  • Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:08:20 +1300

Samual Acorn wrote:
>
> > Why? Linux seems to survive crashes.
>
> well.... this wouldnt exactly be a 'normal' crash... this
> would be a slow meltdown... a creep-in of memory corruption
> (and most likely harddrive corruption)...
> the bad part is the harddrive will be the first to go due
> to it being the biggest power sucker in a laptop

One way to minimize the corruption would be to run Linux
from a ramdisk and put the HD in sleep mode after booting.
Or, better yet, unplug the HD altogether and boot the
ramdisk from floppies.

Cheers,
Steven




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