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Is it possible to have a live opensuse version on a usb stick and boot it to ram(2GB)? like the arch and puppylinux distros? maybe a command at statup??? thanks ...
  1. 04-15-2011 #1
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    Booting openSUSE to RaM?

    Is it possible to have a live opensuse version on a usb stick and boot it to ram(2GB)?
    like the arch and puppylinux distros? maybe a command at statup???

    thanks a lot for the help
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    Provided your machine has enough RAM installed, it's possible.
    You'll have to create a ramdisk. You can Google how to do this, but I found something that might come in handy for you on the Ubuntu forums:
    HOWTO: Load linux into ram (usefull for security, CF-cards or very slow HDD's) - Ubuntu Forums
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  3. 04-16-2011 #3
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    Thanks a lot!
    I will research and tryit out
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