How to make a Live USB running "from RAM"?

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 04/20/2010 01:00 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>
>   
>> It was in the menu before and caused a lot of confusion and bug reports
>> from users who misunderstood what it meant.
>>     
> Hmmm, so this is another case where inexperienced users damage long time
> users.
> Wouldn't it better to have a
>   "Boot normally"
>   "Boot and run from RAM (expert)"
> menu structure?
> Or maybe something which says what kind of options are available
> for adding (knoppix used to have this kind of help screen).
>   

That was how it was done before.  A number of users invariably clicked
the boot from RAM option and that requires more RAM on your system and
then complained about it.  The number of users who actually want that
option is apparently minuscule.  I will add it to the How to anyway.

Rahul