roberts
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Posted: Mar. 13 2006,20:51 |
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Looks like there is still confusion with pendrive and toram. It actually works the same as a mydsl.iso created liveCD.
First anytime extensions are store on the base directory of a boot device they will be autoloaded. Having mydsl=sda1 is not necessary.
This is true whether using toram or not.
Using toram does not save from excessive writing on the pendrive. Whether you use toram or not, the ramdisk is used for writing. There is no writing occuring back into the compressed image on the pendrive.
Then what is the difference? Using toram, if you have the memory, will give somewhat faster performance, as it reads from ramdisk not pendrive. Also it sllows one to remove the pendrive and stick in another one. Just like it does with the liveCD.
The only effect toram has on extension loading, is the use of the /optional directory. Since using toram unmounts the pendrive, you cannot click on the optional directory to load optional extensions, unless the pendrive is mounted.
The other area that is different is when not using toram, the pendrive is mounted at /cdrom so you can easily copy extensions there. If you use to toram, it is not mounted. So then you must mount the pendrive and copy extension to its mountpoint, typically /mnt/sda1
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