Dave Erickson wrote: >I've done a bit of searching and haven't come up with much but what I >was wondering is: can a person load an entire OS into RAM from the HDD >or network and then use a sync program to write updates to the disk but >actually run the whole thing in ram? Puppy Linux <http://www.goosee.com/puppy/> runs mainly from RAM disk. This may be close to what you want. It is only 45MB compressed, so it can boot from a 64MB CF or pen drive. >What advantage would there be as far as actual speed increases? I would >guess the performance increase could be dramatic as there would be no >need to go to the HDD at all. >I just upgraded to 1 GB of RAM in my desktop computer and started >wondering.... Puppy Linux only needs a 200MHz CPU and 128MB RAM according to the author. Sincerely, Ken Fuchs <kfuchs at winternet.com> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list