Running linux in a RAM drive, was flash bootable Linux

[Scott]

Yeah, DamnSmallLinux does this already.  www.damnsmall*linux*.org/

-Scott

eric© wrote:
> Given that a lot of systems are capable of a gig or more of memory, 
> what about running a flash drive with the distro installed to the 
> flash, and either setting the swap to use a RAM drive, or even running 
> the full distro in a RAM drive?  Obviously, this deviates quite a bit 
> from what the thread started as and I'm not suggesting this as a 
> solution to his question.  Seems that it could easily solve the 
> problem of repeated writes to the flash.
>  
> eric
>  
> On 11/15/06, *Joseph Sinclair* <plug-discussion at stcaz.net 
> <mailto:plug-discussion at stcaz.net>> wrote:
>
>     You could, but the system would usually put swap on the root
>     partition.  Since swap is a lot of writes, and many flash-memory
>     drives don't survive large numbers of writes, it is known to
>     destroy the flash-memory drive.
>
>     The advantage of the systems that are designed to use flash-memory
>     is that they minimize the writes to flash-memory (usually only on
>     shutdown), thus preserving it.  There are a number of systems
>     designed this way, but the most popular are Puppy and DSL (both of
>     which are often used in systems that boot and run entirely from a
>     CF card), but there are some others.
>
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