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mikshaw

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Posted: Feb. 23 2006,00:59

I'm not sure i completely understand your situation, but it sounds as though you're thinking that a swap partition cannot be used if you run toram. This is not the case.

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Updated extended ramdisk to use swap only if not using 'toram' option.

This means that the ramdisk itself will not use swap if you use toram. The swap will still be available, to be used as needed when/if you run low on physical ram. Unfortunately you'll need to be much more careful about what you add to your ramdisk, meaning you won't be able to add many *.dsl or *.deb applications. If you use a persistent /opt, you'll be able to load many *.tar.gz or *.uci applications, since they would be installed on a harddrive without adding to the ramdisk. The same can be said about a persistent /home. Even though it will be mounted in /ramdisk/home, the actual home directory would be on a permanent partition instead of being in ram.

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Posted: Feb. 23 2006,02:44

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lesliek

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Posted: Feb. 23 2006,18:08

Quote (mikshaw @ Feb. 23 2006,05:59)

I'm not sure i completely understand your situation, but it sounds as though you're thinking that a swap partition cannot be used if you run toram. This is not the case.

Thanks very much for your reply, mikshaw.

It's not that I want to use a swap file while running toram; it's that I want to use a swap file in order to be able to run toram in the first place, since I only have 64MB of physical RAM. I was hoping that, since I had a 128MB swap file, DSL would treat me as having 192MB of RAM.

Can I run toram in those circumstances?

Thanks again,

Leslie

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Posted: Feb. 24 2006,23:04

A comment on a few posts back, re- web browsers. On a PC with 32M of RAM, firefox wasn't an option, it's just too big. Dillo isn't really an option as it just can't handle a lot of web sites. The file type escapes me at the moment (the ones it can't handle). Opera WAS an option and ran well. Hope this helps. Good luck.

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Posted: Feb. 25 2006,05:43

Thanks very much for that, larkl. I think that while reading other threads, I came across your saying the samr thing about Opera to someone else. I've actually got 64MB of RAM to play with and, just a short time ago, got the modem that's to be used with this computer. I'll now try to get the thing working and see whether Firefox runs acceptably. If not, you'll know it, since I'll be back here begging help on installing Opera!

Thanks again,

Leslie

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