Albrecht Mehl wrote:
Aaron Kulkis schrieb:
Albrecht Mehl wrote:
The very nature of your question reveals that you are not very
experienced with Linux, or Unix machines in general...and thus,
don't have any idea of how complicated it would be to do what
you propose.
This can be true, but your ideas put forward below are not the whole
truth either.
In short, you're essentially asking how to modify your
car so that the engine can be removed very quickly while
your car is moving, so that you can drive around town in
stop-and-go traffic with no engine.
I put a similar question to the newsgroup
de.comp.os.unix.apps.kde
In reply on 13 June 2007 Henning Paul wrote
This [Linux without harddisk] is possible indeed....
Here in our institute we do similar things. All
computers run without hard disk.
That's a diskless workstation, running off of
other disk drives on a file server which is completely
different.
We were doing that with Sun workstations at Purdue
in the 1980's. But performance sucks.
And he asserted that 1 Gb RAM would be sufficient for running two or
three applications like Firefox or Thunderbird in a ramdisk.
Depends on how the user actually uses those applications.
I often open several web pages, but don't get around
to reading them until days later....meanwhile, still
doing all of the other web-browsing activity that I
would still be doing otherwise.
I have 2 GB on my laptop, and I'm using another 1 GB
of swap right now.
The corresponding key word for having a kernel _not_
using the hd regularly is 'laptopmode'. I do hope that there are people
here in this group knowing a bit more about that than either you or me.
A. Mehl
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