Hi Ralf,
>> How about first installing to a directory or diskimage stored >> in a ramdisk on the host OS, then copying that to mass storage? > This would be a bit like the old chicken and egg problem. The time you > would spend to copy the contents of the FreeDOS distro from the SD card > to a RAM disk on the RPi is likely not much faster... I expect it to be much faster because: You only read from the slow SD card and you read fewer, larger files. The bad parts, writing many small files, would be on the fast ramdisk side. Also, you can start from a FreeDOS ISO on the SD card, which again is only one big file to copy from the web to the card. When done, you copy one big file, the diskimage, once from the ramdisk to the SD card :-) > The only way you could possibly speed this up (at least on a RPi4B+) > would be to use a USB media (external hard drive/SSD), with the > RPi4B+ being significantly faster than previous models... Yes. It always is something to check how fast the USB and LAN of Raspberry style computers of various brands actually are. Luckily benchmarks exist on the web :-) Alas, SBC rarely have SATA connectors, so USB3 it will be. But even a SSD with USB2 is a lot faster than SD because of the much better IOPS :-) Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
