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distrofit

Member

Registered: 2015-04-01

Posts: 3

Running from Ram?

I thought Slitaz (currently running 4.0) works entirely in RAM?!

I am using a normal usb pen drive and everything is working, but sometimes it freezes and the pen drive is blinking... but it said that slitaz runs in ram - can't be that way.. i cannot remove my pen drive too, for the system freezes/crashes..

How can I make it run completely in ram so that i can remove my pen drive and (hopefully) insert it again to save some data...

llev

Member

Registered: 2011-12-09

Posts: 568

Re: Running from Ram?

It depends on the boot parameters. How do you start SliTaz?

Ceel

Administrator

Registered: 2011-04-02

Posts: 1,424

Re: Running from Ram?

@distrofit,

If you create your LiveUSB from Applications > System Tools > Create a LiveUSB or from a terminal with tazusb and your stick is ext2 or ext3 formated, then the utility has configured your /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf to have /home on the stick; ie:[c]

LABEL core

    MENU LABEL SliTaz core Live

    KERNEL /boot/bzImage

    append initrd=/boot/rootfs4.gz,/boot/rootfs3.gz,/boot/rootfs2.gz,/boot/rootfs1.gz rw root=/dev/null vga=normal autologin home=b3767b57-11bd-439e-9b98-bed14c2f3937[/c]

To avoid the system to freeze when you remove the stick, you can modify extlinux.conf

At boot when the orange screen displayed, select SliTaz core Live and hit the Tab key. With the backspace key, suppress the [c]home=[/c]uuidinstruction.

If you want this modification to be permanent, edit the extlinux.conf file of the stick (same modification or create a suplementary entry with no home instruction). You can also indicate the uuid of another device for home (ext formated!).

How many RAM do you have on your system? This can be a reason that sometimes the system hangs with the USB stick blinking.

distrofit

Member

Registered: 2015-04-01

Posts: 3

Re: Running from Ram?

thank you. i will figure that out.

but i had already passed the live system and installed it on my pen drive... (before my first post)

i had that experience on my good old pentium 4 with 1 gig ram ... so i think hardware is not the reason for freezing, for even mint 17 64 bit is running flawlessly...

so you gave the clue about how to manage the live system. and how about the ram disk? (boot parameters and so on).

if it does not differ from other ram disk commands you can ignore that question for i guess it has to be saved in the menu.lst  ...