Running linux in a RAM drive, was flash bootable Linux

[David Bendit]

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On Nov 15, 2006, at 10:50 PM, 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.

Actually, now I'm wondering: is it possible to have a standard  
distro, say, Debian, load itself into a RAM drive on startup?

- -David 
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