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EarlSmith
Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 197 Location: Chelsea, Alabama, USA
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Posted: Wed 20 Jul 2005, 01:40 Post subject:
Can HD Chubby Puppy run from RAM like CD Puppy? |
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I just installed Chubby Puppy to HD and everything went without trouble. Even Grub installed easily. Two questions.
With everything on HD, is the ramdisk no longer used?
Would it be possible to load everything into ram just as we do with CD? Since HD is faster than CD, the loading of ram would be faster than with CD.
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Freedom

Joined: 17 Jul 2005 Posts: 30
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Posted: Sat 23 Jul 2005, 19:23 Post subject:
Re: Can HD Chubby Puppy run from RAM like CD Puppy? |
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EarlSmith wrote: | I just installed Chubby Puppy to HD and everything went without trouble. Even Grub installed easily. Two questions.
With everything on HD, is the ramdisk no longer used?
Would it be possible to load everything into ram just as we do with CD? Since HD is faster than CD, the loading of ram would be faster than with CD. |
Forgive me for asking possibly a very obvious question, but what is chubby puppy?
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BarryK
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Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 8526 Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Sat 23 Jul 2005, 20:23 Post subject:
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Freedom wrote: |
Forgive me for asking possibly a very obvious question, but what is chubby puppy? |
Freedom,
You need to read the News page, Chubby is announced, 19th July.
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raffy
Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4839 Location: Manila
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Posted: Sun 24 Jul 2005, 00:08 Post subject:
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A good question. It seems to be a choice between using Puppy from (1) live CD, or (2) hard disk (a Linux install). Let me try listing what one does to get into each choice:
LIVE CD - Run from CD or install to a FAT partition (Puppy loads to RAM)
HARD DISK - Install Puppy to a Linux partition (Puppy does not load to RAM???)
Now Barry is working on another config that saves work in RAM and all changes to a flash drive at shutdown.
Given version 1.04, which one would you recommend to speed this up: "load everything into ram just as we do with CD"?
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Flash
Official Dog Handler

Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 12820 Location: Arizona USA
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Posted: Sun 24 Jul 2005, 00:40 Post subject:
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Freedom wrote: | Forgive me for asking possibly a very obvious question, but what is chubby puppy? | See Barry's News page; also Lobster's post, for a link to the Puppy104 Wiki page.
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Freedom

Joined: 17 Jul 2005 Posts: 30
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Posted: Sun 24 Jul 2005, 16:09 Post subject:
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BarryK wrote: | Freedom wrote: |
Forgive me for asking possibly a very obvious question, but what is chubby puppy? |
Freedom,
You need to read the News page, Chubby is announced, 19th July. |
LOL Good one
Thanks to all for the answers. I see now what it is. I will have to try it since I am partial to OO.o.
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Lobster
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Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 15238 Location: Paradox Realm
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Posted: Sun 24 Jul 2005, 23:13 Post subject:
Re: Good question |
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raffy wrote: |
LIVE CD - Run from CD or install to a FAT partition (Puppy loads to RAM)
HARD DISK - Install Puppy to a Linux partition (Puppy does not load to RAM???)
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The CD is bootted up and Puppy goes into Ram
The HD is booted and Puppy goes into Ram
Puppy always runs in and from RAM - Barry has a page on his website: How Puppy works,
If there is insufficient memory THEN Puppy will run partly from a HD swap file.
This is why even though you may have 64 meg Ram (sufficient to load Standard Puppy) 128 meg is better as it leaves rooms for files and add ons
etc.
Knoppix swaps from CD into ram and then runs. It is slow because programs have to be found on the CD, pulled off it and loaded into Ram. In a similar most distros have to take their running programs from HD into ram.
Because Puppy programs are small, this is unneccessary.
We do not look for small efficient programs for any other reason.
When I first found working Linux desktop distros, I found something working differently but certainly not any faster than Windows for most practical tasks.
Puppy worked in a way I was reasonably familiar with and a lot faster. It is Linux the way it should be (or rather the way I expected)
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