Hi, John: You've already gotten excellent advice on list about modern Linux installations, so I'm not going to repeat all that. Suffice it to say that what you're trying to achieve is pretty much the default install these days, i.e. the tmpfs in ram, etc., etc. My question to you is what kind of machine? Are we talking about an office tower here? Or is this going to be a laptop? If the former--then there's lots to talk about. But, if it's a laptop, I strongly suggest you consider getting it from an outfit like Emperor Linux: http://www.emperorlinux.com/ You'll pay a bit more for the machine than you would pay for the same model elsewhere, but it will have Linux installed to your specifications, and you'll have their support as you learn to use your new machine. That's worth the price difference, imo. PS: Go ahead and have them install everything you need to run the graphical desktop with Orca's braille support, but tell them you want the console to be your default boot environment. That's a very simple systemctl command these days, and leaves you with all the flexibility you can ever want, i.e. you can start the gui with a startx command whenever you do want to run Firefox, or something else on the desktop. Janina John J. Boyer writes: > I've more or less decided to replacer my ten-year-old Linux machine. It > is giving error messages intermittently. Most of them are about sector > errors, but others seem to have nothing to do with the hard drive. It > may be more and more troublesome, even if the hard drive is replaced. > Besides, it would be nice to get more up-to-date hardware. > > I'm thinking of getting 32 GB of ram. 8 GB will be for normal use. The > other 24 GB will be in a ramdisk. Do I need a paging file? 8 GB of > available ram should be more than enough. The paging file on my present > machine always shows 0 usage, even with only 4 GB of ram. How do I avoid > setting up a paging file during installation? I'm using Debian Jessie. > > How do i set up the ramdisk? I want to assign the temp directory to it. > It might be nice if the bin, sbin and usr directories were loaded onto > it at boot-up. > > Thanks, > John > > -- > John J. Boyer; President, > AbilitiesSoft, Inc. > Email: john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org > Status: 501(C)(3) Nonprofit > Location: Madison, Wisconsin USA > Mission: To develop softwares and provide STEM services for people with > disabilities which are available at no cost. > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Email: janina@xxxxxxxxxxx Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list