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nick_wilkins

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Registered: 2016-12-18

Posts: 2

Running Arch in RAM from USB

Hey guys,

I've been looking into running an OS from a USB key recently as carrying my laptop is more difficult than just carrying around a small USB, I have been using Puppy linux as my main means of doing this but was wondering if anyone knew of a Arch based distro that would do this job?

Having done some looking around for information on this and have come across this thread:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=64281

It has some good recommendations on different distro's to look into, but the last post on it was back in 2011 and some of the suggestions are either not supported anymore or just don't exist.

So I'm mainly looking to see if there's anything a bit more recent out there that may possibly in active development right now? Some of the main things I'm looking for are running the system in RAM rather than reading from USB, as it is much quicker and not a persistent USB as I hear this can kill your USB drive after a bit of time.

Any information is appreciated

alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: Running Arch in RAM from USB

Liveroot looked promising for something like this, but I've never gotten around to trying it.

OT LOL: I couldn't remember the name of the package at first, but knew it leverages overlayfs. So I googled "arch overlay" and on the first page of results was a google books link about rhinoplasty.

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jsteel

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From: England

Registered: 2008-03-18

Posts: 119

Re: Running Arch in RAM from USB

Build your own with archiso and boot with "copytoram" appended to the kernel parameters.

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kmartin

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Registered: 2016-04-27

Posts: 17

Re: Running Arch in RAM from USB

I have used this link. It is not supported of course.
https://klingt.net/blog/persistent-arch … ash-drive/

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nick_wilkins

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Registered: 2016-12-18

Posts: 2

Re: Running Arch in RAM from USB

Cheers for the response guys, will have a look into your suggestions, I have read up about ways of getting Arch to achieve this but was wondering more if there was an actual dirsto that was Arch based and ran well from USB?