• pelya@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    A Debian live image fits into 4GB flash drive. If you search stuff for sale you can probably find them cheap, and 4GB is practically the smallest size you can buy.

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        3 hours ago

        The biggest online store in my country has 4GB flash drives permanently on sale for $3.

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          10 hours ago

          I see. Those are all USB 2.0, probably, no? Does the lower read/write speeds compared to 3.2 make a difference for booting from a live ISO?

          Cause the smallest USB 3.2 flash drives I could find were 16GB. But that leaves room for a casper.rw and a swapfile if necessary, or even multiboot, so it’s not that bad. And they come in 5 packs!

          Of course, if someone has a collection of promo sticks, use what you have of course…

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        13 hours ago

        I bought a brand new 4GB off Amazon last year that is supposedly made by Sandisk. Seems legit and been using it with one of my 3D printers.

        Impossible to find them in any brick and mortar store anymore. It’s so dumb because they come in handy and I hate thinking of wasting larger drives with so many writes.

        Now is the perfect time with memory being so expensive.