Linux Installing on a flash drive?

I'm wanting to install a Linux kernel onto a 4gbs flash drive, more specifically I'm wanting to install the following one on it: http://www.trustix.org/

Any ideas/suggestions?

 

There is a thread in the trustix forums, but the trustix site seems to be exceptionally slow and not even Google Cache seems to be working

 

Ooh really? I never really bother reading other website forums as generally I've found them to be un-helpful, I'll have to take a waltz through them then whenever their site decides to work again

 

On a disk that size all you have to worry about is excessive wear. What i would do is install it normally then modify fstab to put the high write areas on a tmpfs so they are recorded to a ram disk. Off the top of my head, /tmp /var/logs/, there are a few more i'm sure someone will pipe up. I wouldn't use ext3 but i'm sure i read some where one of the newer fs had wear levelling as a feature

 

Make sure you mount everything except / with noatime to prevent unnecessary disk writes.

 

Thanks for the tips, I wouldn't be using the OS excessively though, it's only there for me to experiment with cross-platform (Windows/Linux) program development and really get to grips with programming and later server management