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Topic: How to use toram option, Ejectable DSL CD

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venkriss

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Posted: Jan. 07 2005,00:21

Hi friends,
I am completely new to DSL. I came to know about this when I was searching for an ejectable bootCD. I found from these forums that if I use "toram" boot option I can make the DSL CD ejectable. However I was not successful. Can somebody suggest me on howto use "toram" option and make the CD ejectable. Following is the unsuccessful process I went through.

1) Booted DSL cd using "knoppix26 toram" option.
2) After booting, at the rootshell I said
$:> eject /mnt/cdrom
3) CD was ejected, however if I try to use some commands (Example "more filename") it kept on saying Input/Output error.

Please let me know where the process went wrong.

Thanks,
VK

ke4nt1

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Posted: Jan. 07 2005,00:33

Try using the command

dsl toram

Even better , if your drives support it, is

dsl dma toram

There is not a 2.6.X kernel in DSL, only 2.4.26.
Let us know if it works..

73
ke4nt

Mechcozmo

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Posted: Jan. 09 2005,07:33

Quote (ke4nt1 @ Jan. 06 2005,19:33)

Try using the command

dsl toram

Even better , if your drives support it, is

dsl dma toram

What do those commands do? I know that if you are starting off of a USB flashdrive, you have a limited number of writes before a block goes bad. So those are good options for a USB-stick, but what do they do?

mikshaw

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Posted: Jan. 09 2005,15:42

dsl toram loads the whole filesystem into RAM, so you can eject the DSL CD and also access your applications faster. If you're running from CD applications are individually loaded into RAM the first time you use them.

dsl dma enables Direct Memory Access for your disks. If your disks support it, this allows for accelerated throughput (faster access).
http://www.science.unitn.it/~fiorella/guidelinux/tlk/node87.html

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http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html

Caspar_s
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Posted: Jan. 09 2005,17:02

Quote

I know that if you are starting off of a USB flashdrive, you have a limited number of writes before a block goes bad. So those are good options for a USB-stick, but what do they do?

But surely you're not actually changing much when you're running dsl off your usb stick? I mean, you don't have a swap partition on it, and it mainly just reads all the os off the drive, it doesn't change it. Would it be faster with toram?

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