Recent netbooks with Solid State Drives?

[J]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 03:46, Amedee Van Gasse <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
> On Tue, March 1, 2011 19:41, J wrote:
>
>> Also, the super cheap ones that have the 8GB drives (or smaller) could
>> make installing difficult, by the time you account for swap space and
>> filesystem overhead, you could end up with more like 5GB storage space
>> for the OS itself.
>
> I found that in reality this isn't an issue at all. My AA1 has 2 slots for
> an SD card. One SD card is permanently mounted and carries the /home
> partition. But even without the SD card I would have enough space. I'm
> calling these devices cloudbooks anyway.

Well, I was talking about the 8GB SSDs not the SD cards, but that's
another good point to raise... the one thing about my Lenovo S-10 that
I did not like is that it lacks the ability to boot from SD card.  I
wish it would, because I'd have a different OS on each of several SD
cards, all using encrypted filesystems, and all for different
purposes.

I had a grand scheme plotted out, only to fail because that particular
system wouldn't boot.  Though I have seen several netbooks that DO
boot from the SD slot.

My comment was more about remaining space on a single device rather
than having multiples... it's not always an issue, but I have, in the
past, run into problems where an overzealous installer will create a
swap space way to big, and eat up half the available disk in the
process.  3GB was a fair estimate for automatically created swap... at
one point the installer was choosing to create something like 2.5% RAM
in swap space, and my netbook has 1.5GB RAM installed... :/

It was always fun to try an OS install and get the "You dont' have
enough space left" message because the installer tried to give me too
much swap.