Take the 2-minute tour ×  I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 Server
onto an Acer Aspire Easystore H340-M.  It was a Windows Home
Server. The hardware has an integral Flash Drive / USB (SCSI11)
of 256 Mb.  Could I use this as the boot partition? If so any
pointers on what I should do?  share|improve this question By
RAM Drive I assume you mean Flash drive? –  Cry Havok Sep 23 '11
at 14:54 Have you been able to identify which device the drive
is in /dev? –  Danny Staple Sep 24 '11 at 22:33  1 Answer 1  up
vote 1 down vote accepted  Even if it is a flash drive and not
ram ( therefore, it remembers its contents when you shut down ),
250 mb is insufficient to install the system to, so no.
share|improve this answer That would only apply for the root
partition, which is not the same as boot. Boot could be tiny, as
it would only have grub config, a kernel and an initrd image. It
should easily fit into 256Mb. You would then need a larger drive
though. Adding as a comment not answer, because I'd need to play
with the hardw