Hi Jerome, thanks for the insights :-)
So what is the combined size of all "programs which have settings or high scores" which the user would like to be updated? Remember that high scores in ramdisk are lost at reboot anyway and it is possible that games just continue without error when they fail to write to their highscore file. > running the entire OS in RAM has some advantages. That depends. As the combined uncompressed size of ALL packages is more than 1 GB, many computers of DOS fans would be excluded from being able to run a Live CD with more than 1 GB RAMDISK. Also, even in Linux it is very uncommon to install uncompressed source trees of large numbers of packages. People are more likely to only install a few source trees while recompiling few packages. In particular for a Live CD, I see no need to uncompress any of the source trees at boot. As long as the sources are provided in the compressed packages on the read-only part of the CD. As far as I understand, one would still need more than 682 MB of ramdisk space for a Live CD in that case? How much would that go down if only packages which have to write to their install directory get installed to ramdisk? And how big would the 3 largest packages in that ramdisk be? Which 3 packages? Would it be, for example, possible to make a Live CD which runs on PC with 500 MB RAM, which could be used as 64 MB for the apps, a few dozen MB for caches and the rest for a large ramdisk for only those apps which need writeable install directories, possibly excluding a few large ones? For a stretch goal, how about 250 MB RAM? I think Win9x PC which could boot from CD even had less than 100 MB and they would have the advantage to have DOS game compatible sound. Thanks :-) Eric > This is just information for RC1. Not disk space requirements > Total packages: 298 > All packages (compressed) 532 MB > All packages (uncompressed) 1.1 GB (30,806 files, > some source trees contain LFNs and remain compressed) > All packages (uncompressed binaries) 682 MB + 227 MB > (compressed sources) = 909 MB (17,653 files + 1 massive source zip) _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
