<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454012809724_6485"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454012809724_6652">Have you tried adding toram to the boot options?</span></div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454012809724_6499"> Maybe you could get ideas from here:</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454012809724_6499" dir="ltr"><a href="https://major.io/2014/07/29/adventures-in-live-booting-linux-distributions/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454012809724_6740">https://major.io/2014/07/29/adventures-in-live-booting-linux-distributions/</a><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454012809724_6499" dir="ltr">and here:</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454012809724_6499" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.espenbraastad.no/post/el6-rootfs-on-tmpfs-update2/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454012809724_6757">http://www.espenbraastad.no/post/el6-rootfs-on-tmpfs-update2/</a><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454012809724_6499" dir="ltr">just a thought.</div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454012809724_6447">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>C. Mike Rice <br>KF7VZZ@gmail.com <br>dolo724@yahoo.com</div><br> <div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454012809724_6588"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454012809724_6625"> Copying a live DVD to a ramdisk? (Lincoln Peters)</span><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454012809724_6592" style="display: block;"><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454012809724_6591"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454012809724_6590"><div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454012809724_6595"><div id="yiv7422036327"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1454012809724_6626">I noticed that Knoppix has a feature to copy everything to a ramdisk at boot time, thereby freeing up the DVD drive for other things once the system is up and running. Anyone know if there's a way to do the same with a live DVD based on CentOS 7?</span></div><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>