Running linux in a RAM drive, was flash bootable Linux

[David Bendit]

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I know all about that. Pretty much every LiveCD distro has that  
capability. What I mean is, could a normal distribution, an installed  
one, have the capability of loading itself into a RAM disk at boot?  
It would be an interesting way to possibly increase performance in  
times when data access speed is critical.

- -David

On Nov 16, 2006, at 9:27 PM, Dennis Kibbe wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 07:05 -0700, David Bendit wrote:
>> Actually, now I'm wondering: is it possible to have a standard
>> distro, say, Debian, load itself into a RAM drive on startup?
>>
>> -David
>
> Sure, you can run Knoppix that way.  Boot like this:
>
> knoppix toram
>
> It will take a while to copy the contents of the CD to ram.  Then pick
> up a 1Gb USB Flash drive for $25 or less and use that for your home
> directory.
>
> dennisk
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