Ok, heres that deal. I work at a major electronics store and we need to be able to back up data on laptops, but we do not have auth. to take that HDs out. So iv'e loaded knopptix under run level 2 "knopptix 2" at start up. Then I mount my hda1 (my win partition) and then I mount my smb drive and transfer my files over.

The problem comes when I have a laptop that has under 128 MB ram. Then I start getting ERRnomem errors. I figure this is because I'm using so much of te RAM as ramdisk.

So my question is: Can I use a USB flash drive as RAM in Linux??? I would repartition the drive, but many of the laptops I get have a bunch of bad sectors and that usually won't work.

How can I "partition" a USB flash drive as swap and how do I get the Linux box to recongnise it as system RAM?

THANKS in advance for any help.