Need assistance setting up Linux? Let me guide you through the process.
Need assistance setting up Linux? Let me guide you through the process.
Well, my insight comes more from the specific USB device than from the protocol itself. Some (USB2) models lag due to slow flash storage. I looked into the speeds—1.X offers at least 1.5Mbit/s, sometimes up to 12Mbit/s, which is roughly comparable to a CD speed and about 12 times faster than typical 12X CDs. It seems many USB1.X drives can't even boot from USB initially. I'm not confirming your feelings, but it could be the flash memory's slowness that matters most. Plugging in a 1-12X USB drive is possible, though it won't match the performance of a 32-52X drive. Under USB2, flash speed usually was the main limiting factor.
That is also true. Still, some crappy old motherboards such as the one I use to answer this message, the ecs p4m900t-m2 , will CRAWL when loading even from an external HDD connected through USB. A few years ago, I spent a lot of time testing Linux distros from Live USB, installing the ones I liked to external Hard Drives that would connect through USB to a lapto I was using. When I wanted to do the same in this desktop and another, very old, P4... it was impossible. In theory, it should be a lot faster but in real life testing: you need to burn a DVD.
I didn’t give much thought to it that way—I just kept digging until I found an old writable CD and burned the ISO onto it. After booting from the CD, I installed Linux, which took me six hours. That really shows how little I know about Linux on my specs: a single-core Pentium 4, 2.80 GHz, 224 MB DDR2, 32 MB DDR2, integrated graphics chip SIS M650_651_740. I ended up installing Tahrpup 6.0.