lubuntu and ramdisk

[Greg Faith]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner at web.de> wrote:
>
> On Freitag, 10. August 2012 13:54:44 Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 08/10/2012 01:41 PM, Sa On wrote:
> > > A key feature of puppy linux is that the entire system (once booted)
> > > runs off the ramdisk.   Question:  Is it possible to implement
> > > something like this in lubuntu?
> >
> > What makes a live cd/dvd "live" is that it runs from ram.
> > The lubuntu ISO is a live cd.
> > Therefore, what you want has already been implemented.
>
> I think what he meant was also copying the reading part from USB / LiveCD
> to
> the RAM drive and let it run from it. So that you can actually remove the
> live
> media.
> This is achieved by Ubuntu based distributions by using the toram
> bootoption.
> It copies the live-media to the ramdrive and runs from it.
> But you are right. Changes to the live system are always (except you use
> persitency) written to the ramdrive
>
> >
> > > I'm posting because I'm curious -- I don't really understand how
> > > ramdisk works (in terms of implementation and in relation to OS) and
> > > I'm hoping that someone knowledgeable could shed some light on this.
> > > Of course feel free to actually implement this (and let everyone knows
>
> It is already implemented aswell as almost every feature of puppy except
> for
> writing changes to the live system to a cd-rw or overwriting another
> session
> in cd-r.
>
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Try this link I think it will explain that what you desire is easy  to
implement.

http://www.linuxscrew.com/2010/03/24/fastest-way-to-create-ramdisk-in-ubuntulinux/

Greg nm_geo