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Keep TC from loading to RAM?

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cortman:
I realize this is kind of a fundamental aspect of TinyCore, but I am curious.
I have a very old laptop that runs TC fairly well, and as it has no real networking capabilities I am really thankful for TC's SCM repository.
However this machine only has 64 MB of RAM. The base TC system alone uses up almost 50 MB when it is loaded at startup. Extra packages to load would max the machine out very fast.
Therefore I was wondering if there was any way I could run TC without having it load to RAM, so I would be able to run more applications and use my 64 MB a little better. I'd like to run TC straight from the HDD.
Or is it possible (if I can't run it from the HDD) to have it load to a swap partition and run from there?

Thanks.

gerald_clark:
You can reduce the memory footprint with the opt= and home= boot options.
Don't forget to remove opt and home from /opt/.filetool.lst.
With all the extensions loop mounted, that will leave very little in RAM.

Running root from hard disk is NOT supported.  You will have to find a different distribution if that is a requirement.

cortman:
OK, thanks for clearing that up.
My other question was whether or not I could have TC load to a swap partition instead of RAM?
Thanks.

Rich:
Hi cortman

--- Quote ---My other question was whether or not I could have TC load to a swap partition instead of RAM?
--- End quote ---
I don't think so. Try adding the boot code  nozswap  to reduce Ram usage, see:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,15096.msg86542.html#msg86542

gerald_clark:
If you have a formatted swap partition, Core will find it and use it automatically.
You need to add a nozswap boot option to disable the RAM zswap.

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