booting to ram
Billie Walsh
bilwalsh at swbell.net
Sun Dec 21 16:46:23 UTC 2008
Knapp wrote:
> I found this for making a ram disk.
> http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Ramdisk/ramdisk.html
>
> So then the next step is to see what needs to be on that ram disk. Any
> ideas anyone?
> Anything that is loaded with the load of FF would be good, I would think.
> Bin and sbin?
> Lib? (way to big!!) maybe just some of it?
> lib32?
> lib64?
>
>
All this talk of ramdisks reminded me of something I did back in the
dark ages of computers. I had a Leading Edge 8088XT [ 12MHz in Turbo
mode ]. The memory was maxed out but I found something called a Rampat
board [ an AT add on board with four memory slots ]. I had 100 meg of
ram on it [ still got it around here somewhere ]. The computer couldn't
access it directly, even with Himem, so I used it as a ramdisk. My
menu.bat would copy the entire program over to the ramdisk [ remember -
this was back in the days when most programs fit on a 5.25 floppy - and
they didn't spread bits and pieces all over the hard drive ] and execute
it from there. Those OLD programs would fairly fly. Games were a _lot_
more fun. On exit the bat file would copy any changed files back to the
hard drive and remove the program from the ramdisk ready for the next
program. At a guess I think using ramdisk doubled, or even tripled, the
speed of program execution for programs that required a lot of disk
read/write.
It would be a great idea if someone could make a board like that old
Rampat board for modern memory. OR, if you can afford one, use one of
the new _very_ large SD cards.
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