booting to ram

[Paul Rumelhart]

Willy K. Hamra wrote:
> Knapp wrote:
>> Can Kubuntu be set up to boot to ram? I am talking about a fulling
>> installed system not a live disk.
>> Could the bin dir be put in a ram disk (can you make a ram disk?) and
>> then get program boot speeds like you do from something like Damn
>> Small Linux? I have 2g of ram and for 30$ could get another 2g for a
>> total of 4g (64 bit system btw). My system seems to always run on like
>> 20% of the ram I have anyway.
>>
>
> very good question, i'd like to know that as well. i can increase my 
> RAM pretty easily, and this can speed up things pretty much
>

This wiki page came up in a search, on Ubuntu's own site.  I haven't 
tried this, but it looks like it's all ready to go.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BootToRAM

Paul