[Grml-devel] About the new grml direction

[Marc Haber]

On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 11:10:40PM +0100, Ulrich Dangel wrote:
> * Marc Haber wrote [01.01.12 22:33]:
> > Loading an 350 MB image to RAM takes considerably more time than an
> > 130 MB image. 
> 
> You can load the image into ram after you started it via the command
> grml2ram. This means you can copy it to ram while already working.

Nice idea. How about an option to copy to ram in the background?

What do I do on old systems that only have 512 MB RAM?

> > Additionally, on my typically 1 GB large boot, I was
> > able to place to grml-small images in addition to the normal /bot
> > contents. I was already forced to resize /boot on my notebook because
> > of grmls size increase.
>  
> As i said before you can place the grml iso images on a dedicated LVM lv
> or on raid and use that for mounting the isos. Stacked setups will work
> also (LVM on raid)

That doesn't help too much for systems that are already installed.

Greetings
Marc

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