Quote from: mikeo on July 18, 2011, 01:15:46 PM

I have LinuxCoin 0.2.1b plus a 2GB persistance file all on a Verbatin 4GB flash drive. Works great.

I'm doing something very similar. I have LinuxCoin 0.2.1b plus about 3GB of persistence storage on a PNY 4GB flash drive, and have had absolutely zero problems with it.

That being said, before I found that setup, I was trying to configure Ubuntu 11.04 for mining on a Dane-Elec 4GB flash drive and had all kinds of stability problems. So I would suggest using a quality flash drive, not some cheapo that won't work properly.

For both LinuxCoin and Ubuntu, I used Unetbootin to "burn" the Linux image to USB and to set up persistence. And I was a total Linux noob a few weeks ago before I finally got my first mining rig set up. LinuxCoin has been great.