Re: Running the OS in RAM

There is a gal in .NL that has developed her own 'live' version of Mandriva, more than that she has developed a way to load the whole thing onto a USB flash disk.
if THAT wasnt impressive enough, she has developed a series of scripts that you can execute at boot that copies the entire thing to ram.
I'm using her information to see if there is a way to either use Xandros in the same manner or load the whole thing onto a 120gb poscket drive.
Whats this have to do w/ anything? Yes i do believe this is possible.
Take a look at www.mcnlive.org for more information.
as much as li appreciate fedora and Xandros, this has me REALLY looking at Mandriva again.
However what I am struggling with is duplicating my desktop, which has PAN, GIMP,GAIM, THUNDERBIRD,FIREFOX etc. on it. THOSE tend to bloat the whole package OVER the ideal of 500MB.
I think her idea is that if you keep the load under 500mb you really can load it on almost any contemporary pc , copy it to ram and then run with it. Me i'm more interested in taking my desktop with me, than in the speed of running to ram.
Now a COOL offshoot would be to develop a method that would load the OS ONLY to ram and keep the apps on the flash drive. But thats beyond me (maybe).
There is also a really food book called Linux Live Cd's
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0132432749/ref=s9_asin_image_1/104-3273965-8635943
that includes info on rolling your own Fedora install. My copy should be here next week.

j


----- Original Message -----
From: Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, January 9, 2007 10:45 am
Subject: Running the OS in RAM
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

I've seen how Knoppix can be run with the whole OS in RAM. The thing
is _fast_. I'll soon be getting a laptop with 2GB RAM- quadruple the
amount of RAM that I've used to run Knoppix in. Can I have Fedora run
with the whole OS in RAM like Knoppix? I want a hard-drive install,
but I want to take advantage of all the RAM that machine has.

Thanks in advance.

Dotan Cohen

http://what-is-what.com/what_is/wikipedia.html
http://dotancohen.com/terriblefile/index.php

--
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

--
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Relevant Pages

  • Re: What OS should I use?
    ... I do know that that the regular KNOPPIX comes with two ... > other livecd system. ... KNOPPIX and other operating systems in livecd form use your RAM as ... too low for KNOPPIX to load everything it needed to run on your machine. ...
    (freebsd-questions)
  • Re: Faster Marshaling?
    ... and 2 seconds to load a 9MB sized Marshal ... there's a way around this without extensive modification to ruby. ... loaded into RAM. ... entire data set in RAM all at once, because any one final data table ...
    (comp.lang.ruby)
  • Re: c# out of memory question
    ... I have 2GB of RAM on my machine and looking at task ... | memory to 3070MB. ... | testclass testclass1 = new testclass; ... however, this memory range is also used to load your code modules, the CLR ...
    (microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp)
  • Re: ASUS K8N-E Deluxe ( Deluxe problem)
    ... video, 400Watt PS, yada yada yada ... Bad RAM module might have hosed files on your hard drive....making it look flaky ... ASUS .com does a good ... The boot load actually gets to 'Loading NTFS file system" before it craps out and reboots.... ...
    (alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus)
  • Re: Programmatic use of load module
    ... > programmaticaly load modules from RAM/ROM. ... I boot from to transfer the second image into RAM and run it. ... I am trying to keep my VxWorks image and my application image separate. ... loadModule() to load our application module from disk to memory. ...
    (comp.os.vxworks)
Loading