Booting Linux to a Ram Disk
Yeah! I just got a linux machine to copy the whole system into a ramdisk and then boot from it. Talk about fast! Read on to find out how I did it. Introduction: My friend who owns A Byte Better Computers (www.byte-better.com) just built himself a new machine to play spades with. It has a 2.6 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4 x 500 GB SATA2 hard drives with 16 MB cache on each (2 TB total), DVD+R DL CD burn everything drive, floppy, and currently has 4 GB of RAM, soon to be upgraded to 8 GB. It currently runs Windows XP on one drive,and Gentoo linux on a second drive. The other two drives are for data. We thought about several RAID options, but for now they are all separate drives. So we thought to ourselves "We have this great system, how can we make it even faster? Ah! Run the OS from RAM!" So we decided to try it. While we were installing the OSes on the big box, I was using my laptop to build a prototype to work out the bugs. After a lot of research, much trial-and-error, and