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How would I go about making a ram disk, and would I be able to load a small linux distro on it for testing. I don't really know much about ram disks but I have an old computer that has 4gb and I wanted to mess around with it.

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>would I be able to load a small linux distro on it for testing

Not from inside windows. You could however configure Linux to run from a RAM disk.

 

Just imagine the RAM disk as a hard drive, but its filesystem is created on your RAM instead of on a disk platter.

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>would I be able to load a small linux distro on it for testing

Not from inside windows. You could however configure Linux to run from a RAM disk.

 

Just imagine the RAM disk as a hard drive, but its filesystem is created on your RAM instead of on a disk platter.

Sorry, I forgot to say that I will be running linux instead of windows. Are there any free programs that do this well on linux?

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Sorry, I forgot to say that I will be running linux instead of windows. Are there any free programs that do this well on linux?

Yes, it is much easier in Linux than Windows

 

mkdir /ramdisk; chmod 777 /ramdisk && mount -t tmpfs -o size=SIZE tmpfs /ramdisk

 

SIZE can be something like 10G, 10M or whatever size you want.

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Yes, it is much easier in Linux than Windows

 

mkdir /ramdisk; chmod 777 /ramdisk && mount -t tmpfs -o size=SIZE tmpfs /ramdisk

 

SIZE can be something like 10G, 10M or whatever size you want.

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How would I go about making a ram disk, and would I be able to load a small linux distro on it for testing. I don't really know much about ram disks but I have an old computer that has 4gb and I wanted to mess around with it.

Ram disks arent worth it because when you shut your computer off it doesnt save whats on them unlles you back up then reload when you boot up again

if you are reading this you are wasting valuable time and should maybe rethink your life choices.

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Ram disks arent worth it because when you shut your computer off it doesnt save whats on them unlles you back up then reload when you boot up again

Just messing around with it, not going to be using it for practical use  :)

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