DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: frugal install of uncompressed HD install?



Does using a compressed frugal install slightly slow performance because the system has to operate from the compressed knoppix file?

Therefore would it be possible to improve performance even further than a standard frugal install if you:
1. Install DSL as a HD install
2. Then boot the HD install with the option toram

There is a slight performance hit from using a compressed filesystem.  If you have a Pentium 2 or newer computer, the performance hit is minimal.  For older computers, a full hd install will yield a noticable performance improvement.  Even so, the compressed filesystem is quite usable.

You cannot boot a full hd installed system with the "toram" option.  "toram" loads the compressed filesystem into RAM.  A full hd install has no compressed filesystem image.


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