Albrecht Mehl wrote:
Aaron Kulkis schrieb:
Albrecht Mehl wrote: The very nature of your question reveals that you are not very experienced with Linux, or Unix machines in general...and thus, don't have any idea of how complicated it would be to do what you propose.
This can be true, but your ideas put forward below are not the whole truth either.
In short, you're essentially asking how to modify your car so that the engine can be removed very quickly while your car is moving, so that you can drive around town in stop-and-go traffic with no engine.
I put a similar question to the newsgroup
de.comp.os.unix.apps.kde
In reply on 13 June 2007 Henning Paul wrote
This [Linux without harddisk] is possible indeed.... Here in our institute we do similar things. All computers run without hard disk.
That's a diskless workstation, running off of other disk drives on a file server which is completely different. We were doing that with Sun workstations at Purdue in the 1980's. But performance sucks.
And he asserted that 1 Gb RAM would be sufficient for running two or three applications like Firefox or Thunderbird in a ramdisk.
Depends on how the user actually uses those applications. I often open several web pages, but don't get around to reading them until days later....meanwhile, still doing all of the other web-browsing activity that I would still be doing otherwise. I have 2 GB on my laptop, and I'm using another 1 GB of swap right now.
The corresponding key word for having a kernel _not_ using the hd regularly is 'laptopmode'. I do hope that there are people here in this group knowing a bit more about that than either you or me.
A. Mehl
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