heyo, everyone!
i just recently put together an awful computer using parts salvaged from the broken desktops of my friend's parents and grandparents (and, in one case, from a police department, which had confiscated it XD). i don't have a hard drive for this computer because the PATA drive i purchased second hand was broken and i didn't feel like getting another, so it's booting off of usb at the moment (this itself took me a while to figure out, as the BIOS is from 2002 and didn't support usb, so i had to use a plop bootloader cd). this setup works, at least, but it's a bit slow and i don't want to wear out my flash drive immediately. my question(tl;dr), then, is this:
how can i set my LXDE desktop to copy itself to RAM upon startup, like a liveCD, so things will be faster and the drive won't fail as quickly? i know that i can use Unetbootin to make the flash drive behave like a live cd, but i want to be able to turn this feature on and off so that, if need be, i can still install programs at a later date. is this possible?
i just recently put together an awful computer using parts salvaged from the broken desktops of my friend's parents and grandparents (and, in one case, from a police department, which had confiscated it XD). i don't have a hard drive for this computer because the PATA drive i purchased second hand was broken and i didn't feel like getting another, so it's booting off of usb at the moment (this itself took me a while to figure out, as the BIOS is from 2002 and didn't support usb, so i had to use a plop bootloader cd). this setup works, at least, but it's a bit slow and i don't want to wear out my flash drive immediately. my question(tl;dr), then, is this:
how can i set my LXDE desktop to copy itself to RAM upon startup, like a liveCD, so things will be faster and the drive won't fail as quickly? i know that i can use Unetbootin to make the flash drive behave like a live cd, but i want to be able to turn this feature on and off so that, if need be, i can still install programs at a later date. is this possible?