Not to sure what your talking about here, but why would a 2 gig DVD need 4 gigs of RAM? When you load knoppix into ram it doesn't uncompress. It just copies the KNOPPIX file to RAM.
If the ram provided by the user's system is less than the required ram to execute the toram option, does the Knoppix CD or DVD automatically find swap to utilize? If so, where does the program look for swap, since it is loading from disc?
It seems obvious it can't use swap.....unless there is a way to instruct the program to utilize it to load toram.
The ram requirement to load toram from the Knoppix CD is 1MB-1.2MB.
Using that as a measure, it would seem that a 2GB dvd disc would require at least 4GB-5GB of ram. Utilizing swap in some fashion by modifying the linuxrc setup (or otherwise) would permit perhaps 2GB of added pseudo-ram for booting DVD discs toram option.
Any possible answers?
Not to sure what your talking about here, but why would a 2 gig DVD need 4 gigs of RAM? When you load knoppix into ram it doesn't uncompress. It just copies the KNOPPIX file to RAM.
As I pointed out, the knoppix CD requires 1GB+ of ram to load the option..toram. This is due to the process inherent in the toram option.
The size of the CD (650+) is about half of the needed ram. The exact figures of what is really stored out of the 650 MB I don't have.
Assuming the process is similar for a DVD Knoppix disc of 2GB, the required ram is now 4-5GB.
The basic problem is to find out the process and see what can be done with it using swap for pseudo-ram or pay for expensive ram and mobo to handle it for DVD toram option.
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