Remaster From RAM?

[Philip Ogletree]

Hello,

This probably won’t work but could you remaster Knoppix using the toram cheatcode if you had enough RAM?

CompUSA has 1 gig of Ram for $75 and I want it, so I need a compelling reason to get it. I have 768 MB now. I could go to 1.5 gigs.

There seems to be several ways to remaster Knoppix but the conventional way seems to be to copy it to the hard drive and chroot into it. If so, the toram cheatcode seems to simply copy Knoppix to a RAM drive of 700 MB and run in from there. No chrooting. Is that right?

If the above is possible and you had enough RAM, say 2 gigs. I wonder if you could do the above and then make the ISO image in another RAM drive thus speeding up the time (30 mins - >1 hour) it takes to make the image by jumping past the relatively slower hard drive.

See, I now need a reason to get 2 sticks of the RAM.

If the first part is possible, I wonder if this would allow a person to make changes in say the background etc and have the changes still in place without having to do anything extra? Or would the compilation process not use the configuration files in the small RAMdrive KNOPPIX makes to hold writeable files? Would it be possible to copy the the configuration files to a location in RAM and have them useable?

If you use the tohd cheatcode to place Knoppix on a particular partition by itself could you start it up using GRUB and the correct partition? Mainly by copying the aforementioned configuration files to the correct places and possibly copying the startup routines (miniroot.gz?) that KNOPPIX uses to boot from the CD?

Thanks
Philip

[UnderScore]

You would need minimum 3GB of RAM and if you do a toram cheat code you would need close to 4GB of RAM.
A toram cheat code would eat up 700MB.
Extracting the compressed filesystem results in about 2GB of files
The final ISO is another 700MB
and you still need RAM to be able to run the remastering process a minimum of 1.5GB (a combination of RAM & swap space). Lets assume 384 RAM plus 1.125 GB of swap space

So lets add it up and find out what you would need at a minimum (not the toram cheatcode).
2.00
0.70
0.25
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2.95 GB of RAM