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Asked: 2012-02-22 02:09:09 +0800 CST

How can I run Linux from RAM only [duplicate]

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Copy OS to tmpfs from initramfs

I am putting together a new server with 64GB of RAM and I would like to copy the whole Linux OS into RAM from the disk and run the operating system solely from RAM.

How can I do this?

rootfs initramfs

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  1. Best Answer

    Most Live CDs have an option to 'Run from RAM'.

    You can find an incomplete list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions_that_run_from_RAM

    Technically, other distributions can be made to boot from RAM as well (also referred to as "RAMboot", "toram" or "copy2ram").

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