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Posted: April 02 2005,05:15 QUOTE
i got a celron that im gona use to download shit, and i want set aside liek 128 ram to put damn small to boot insanly fast, how could i do this, also how could i do a hard drive install of this? i dident burn it to a cd yet but im just curious thank!!! oh and how could u install this to run off a usb thumb drive, thanks again

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Posted: April 02 2005,05:27 QUOTE
to boot it to ram type in "dsl toram" at the boot prompt.  I don't know if you can "set aside" a particular amount of ram for it though

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Posted: April 02 2005,05:37 QUOTE
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also how could i do a hard drive install of this? i dident burn it to a cd yet but im just curious thank!!! oh and how could u install this to run off a usb thumb drive, thanks again


All of these are possible, and well documented here on the forums =) and in the documentation (click 'Documentation' from the main page. Please use the forum 'search' feature to find out more information.

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Posted: April 02 2005,08:35 QUOTE
Just wondering, if you ran DSL purely from a dedicated USB drive, how much difference between that and running with toram?  Or running USB with toram...?  ie., what would be the fastest possible way to run an install of DSL with current available technologies?

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Just wondering, if you ran DSL purely from a dedicated USB drive, how much difference between that and running with toram?  Or running USB with toram...?  ie., what would be the fastest possible way to run an install of DSL with current available technologies?


Is it USB 1 or USB 2? :) Toram would be quicker...Your machines ram is much more efficient and queued higher priority than any other form of storage on your machine. Wouldn't it be nice if we could program our own l2cache? ;p and put DSL on it?!

The fastest possible way to run DSL is toram. It makes things quite snappy, really, and its how I do it.

And then I guess it would depend on the speed of the RAM, wouldn't it? hehe...

Hope this helps!

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