Vahis wrote:
On 12/20/2010 08:39 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Vahis wrote:
On 12/20/2010 12:28 AM, C wrote:
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 21:24, Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote:
On 2010-12-19 15:03, wrote Vahis:
I have always quite liked a boot option in DamnSmallLinux: toram
When you boot the live system "toram" the whole system is runs only in RAM.
It's unbelievably fast (even in a 200 MHz box with 128 MB RAM).
I wonder if this could be implemented in openSUSE Live?
Vahis
Since normal openSUSE LiveCDs are 700MB (instead of 50MB) plus overlay-writing and apps need some more RAM, that might need more than 1GB of RAM to work, which would limit the usefulnes.
Errr... OK, but.. I'm sure that Vahis didn't mean that he wanted to run a 700MB openSUSE iso in 128Mb of RAM... it was just an example from DSL
All machines sold today have at least 1 GB (they have Windows).
A rough calculation tells me you'd need a bit more than that - stick the ISO in memory, and you're left with 250Mb, which isn't enough to run a GUI with no swap.
For machines with 2Gb and more, it's probably an interesting idea.
I checked some ads they run on newspapers and magazines. A typical "super market box" has 2 to 4 gigs and multicore proc.
Also a SWAP file could created on the machine's hard disk.
It's probably not very desirable to touch the harddisk for a Live install. Regardless, I think it's a pretty cool idea, even if not really targeted on our primary audience. It can't be that difficult either - it's basically: if enough memory available then copy CD to memory and run from there, else run from CD. Sounds like a couple of lines in the startup script. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (4.7°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org