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Pytte

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Posted: Dec. 31 2004,11:10

Hey I recently found this great looking distro, and was wondering if it's possible to boot from a HD and make a ramdrive to run DSL on while making the HD go into standby mode..

This would make my system make no sound at all, and make me very happy too ;)

I have no idea how to do this, and would apreciate any info anyone could give about this issue ..

Thankyou in advance..

odoa2

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Posted: Jan. 01 2005,22:31

I second that. I don't really care about the noise, but the ramdrive is SO much faster than even the HD, I would love to config lilo into using the toram option and punting the DSL into RAM. I would still have the persistance of the HD, with the performance on a slower machine of the ramdrive.

ke4nt1

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Posted: Jan. 01 2005,23:16

Using a liveCD or poormans/frugal installs,
you are running from the compressed filesystem = 50MB's

No problem for running toram.. fast, responsive,

But to take a HDInstall, which starts out at 250-300MB's ,
than add your extensions, themes, and other setup data,
and your approaching half a gig or better of ram..

There's not really any great speed difference to running compressed filesystem or
uncompressed filesystem from ram, so why waste the 500+ MB's of valuable ram?

Linux, by nature, does a good bit of "ram caching" anyway..
Open up an application, .. one that takes a few moments to load ..
exit the application ..
reopen the application .. you should see some improvement to your load time.
If you've got the ram to spare, Linux puts it to work..

Remember, your gonna have to backup up all of that to HD anyway..
HOPEFULLY before a planned or unplanned reboot..

Why not save all that ram for running programs ?

Try a frugal install, and use the toram option,
It boots from HD, uses lilo to boot, and runs the compressed filesystem in "toram" mode.
Once it's in ram, your good-to-go .
Saves HD space and ramspace.

73
ke4nt

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