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>

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