Re: Abiword on flash drive

Well, in the case of Puppy Linux on a USB Key, the system partition is
on the USB key, so any data would be written there. Unless you
expressly mount the hard drive from that system, it's probably
unaccessible to begin with: there's nothing magic about the hard drive
except that it's where the system usually boots from.

Mark Richardson wrote:

>
> Thanks for the tip, Barry. I've been running Abiword on a dual boot
> Windows/Mepis Linux machine with great success. But I'm still too dumb
> to see how the Abiword (and other apps) will run without touching the
> hard drive when the slimmed down version I mentioned above *does*
> touch the hard drive. Is the Abiword version on Puppy *not* the
> slimmed version? Does running from Linux in RAM protect the hard drive
> from being written to? (Forgive the newbie questions).
>
> --Mark Richardson
>
> Barry Kauler wrote:
>
>> You could go for the Linux-installed-to-USB-flash-drive route.
>>
>> Puppy Linux is only 60M and fits nicely in a 128M flash drive,
>> with about 50M left over for personal data.
>> Current version of Abiword in Puppy is 2.4.1....
>
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