Check out ramdrives... http://www.linuxscrew.com/2010/03/24/fastest-way-to-create-ramdisk-in-ubuntulinux/ or http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-create-linux-ram-disk-filesystem/ shows an example of how to use them. Might be able to search out how live CDs use it.
Jeremiah E. Bess Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four.six On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 17:15, Scotty Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a Dell XPS 17 L702X with 8GB of ram. I may upgrade it 12 GB > but its not on the front burner at the moment. Is there a way that > Xubuntu (64-bit) can be completely loaded into ram at start up? Ive > never seen it done but was curious as 8GB should be plenty of room. > The computer has two hard drives so I could always set the second hard > drive as my home folder if needed. But Im just curious if when the > system is started if everything could be loaded into RAM and whether > or not it would be a good thing to try or should I just leave well > enough alone. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri > Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rulesor > http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf)
