Running linux in a RAM drive, was flash bootable Linux

[Scott]

Oops, that should be www.damnsmalllinux.org/

Scott wrote:
> 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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