Re: Running linux in a RAM drive, was flash bootable Linux

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Author: David Bendit
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Subject: Re: Running linux in a RAM drive, was flash bootable Linux

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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