RAMDISK for LiveCD

[wwk]

Hi All,

Do you know when a Ubuntu LiveCD boots up, how dose the system allocate
physical memory for RAMDISK and normal memory opearation for application? Is
the RAMDISK size preconfigured in the some configuration file in the CD or
the system would set up a suitable size dynamically depending on how much
physical memory your pc has?


I booted LiveCD from a machine which has a Linux installed in hard disk.
Looked like Ubuntu LiveCD system would mount the swap partititon from hrad
disk too. How will it setup swap if a pc dose not have a swap partition in
the hard disk?

Any pointers to the document would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Peter

[Dirk Roos]

wwk wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Do you know when a Ubuntu LiveCD boots up, how dose the system allocate
> physical memory for RAMDISK and normal memory opearation for application?
> Is the RAMDISK size preconfigured in the some configuration file in the CD
> or the system would set up a suitable size dynamically depending on how
> much physical memory your pc has?
>
>
> I booted LiveCD from a machine which has a Linux installed in hard disk.
> Looked like Ubuntu LiveCD system would mount the swap partititon from hrad
> disk too. How will it setup swap if a pc dose not have a swap partition in
> the hard disk?

The live-cd normally does not use this swap-partition as a swap-partition.
It mounts what it can, but that's it.

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Dirk Roos
SUSE Linux 10.0 - ubuntu 5.04