Knoppix "toram" option (Re: New Knoppix)
Hello,
Just remember to use "knoppix64 toram" for the DVD version, if you want
to copy the entire 4.1 GB into your ramdisk, since the "knoppix" keyword
would be the 32bit kernel, which can't handle memory addressing larger
than 4GB.
Regards
-Klaus
On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 09:44:50AM +1100, NS wrote:
> Are you aware of the 'toram' cheatcode? Copies Knoppix to RAM and runs it from there.
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> I note that this is one of the advantages of the CD version over DVD - being smaller, you can use 'toram' on computers that don't have huge amounts of RAM, such as older machines that many of us still mantain, and copying to RAM doesn't take long so it is feasible to use it this way routinely.
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> On Thu, 4 Feb 2016, at 09:34, jd1008 wrote:
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> > On 02/03/2016 02:21 PM, John Culleton wrote:
> > > On Mon, 01 Feb 2016 09:47:54 -0700
> > > jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> I echo Jim for the latest release.
> > >> Wanted to ask: Is there a way to increase the
> > >> speed?
> > >>
> > >> One way I have been thinking of applies to
> > >> systems with lots of ram - like 32GB and higher.
> > >> What I was thinking of is to loadthe whole
> > >> system into a carved out chunk of ram (ramdisk)
> > >> and mount the ramdisk as /
> > >>
> > >> What do you think of that idea?
> > >>
> > >> On 01/31/2016 05:56 PM, Jim Pritchett wrote:
> > >>> Klaus,
> > >>> Thank you for the new releases.
> > >>> Jim
> > > one of the features of Knoppix is to load the
> > > entire system onto a hard disk location. This
> > > will in some cases speed up running time.
> > True - but the benefit of a live DVD disappears.
> > What benefit is that?
> > After you reboot, there is no history left anywhere on
> > DVD or on RAM disk.
> > Ponder that carefully.
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