How can I avoid swapping / beating up my flashdrive?
The default debian install doesn’t know that you only have 32 MB of RAM, so to save memory, you can tweak what you’re running by default. One place to do this is in inittab – comment out the getty running on the serial port, and comment out the virtual terminal gettys. Also, if you chose Fileserver as an install option, be aware that you’re automatically running NFS, Samba AND Appletalk – surely you can disable some or all of them. I did this, and was able to run my Slug w/no swap enabled. Make sure you disable ipv6 if you don’t need it, and check `lsmod` output to see if there’s crud in there that you don’t need.
