can I make the liveUSB load into the RAM?

newbiesforever · 06-20-2023, 11:45 AM

It's Cinnamon 21.1 64-bit. I would like to load it into my relatively capacious RAM, but I don't see that option in the bootloader.

teckk · 06-20-2023, 11:52 AM

You probably want to make a RAM drive.

Example:

Code:

mkdir /mnt/ram
mount tmpfs /mnt/ram -t tmpfs -o size=2G
cp something /mnt/ram/

You can install and run an operating system from RAM. Gamers used to do that back in win 98 days. Because it was so much faster. Drawback, when you turn it off. It's gone.

uteck · 06-20-2023, 12:05 PM

Seems rather easy to do that with a single boot option. Nice write-up on this link https://askubuntu.com/questions/8299...emove-the-disk

jailbait · 06-20-2023, 03:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by teckk

You can install and run an operating system from RAM. Gamers used to do that back in win 98 days. Because it was so much faster. Drawback, when you turn it off. It's gone.

You might be able to retain the OS across power downs by using hibernate.

https://www.linuxadictos.com/en/hibe...0swap%20memory.

jefro · 06-20-2023, 05:11 PM

toram option. You'd think that would be an easy command option.

frankbell · 06-20-2023, 08:08 PM

I'd check the BIOS/EFI and make sure that USB is set before HDD in the boot order.