NTDEV, the electronics student and YouTuber behind the Tiny11 and Tiny10 Windows minification projects, is embarking on another fascinating venture. live 11The name hints at it, but if you don’t know it, it’s a live Tiny11 image that fits on a DVD and boots fully loaded into RAM.
This is a live image of tiny11 fully loaded in RAM and fitting nicely on a DVD. pic.twitter.com/MBOLZ5NyH1April 2, 2023
In the embedded tweet above, you can see a video that appears to show the complete boot process (and some of Windows in action) recorded from your computer screen. At the beginning of the video, we see the output of what we believe to be Grub4Dos, a bootloader commonly used to create bootable Windows and Linux discs, USB drives, CDs, DVDs, etc. This appears to read 4GB of data from Live11. Insert the DVD into RAM and boot from the RAM disk setup.
A preliminary file copy operation takes less than a minute. After this, the familiar Windows logo appears with spinning dots. The actual Windows 11 boot process from this RAM disk takes about 12 seconds. As for the timing, the teaser demo is from a virtual machine (running on VMWare) and the copy speed is 4GB, so the “live image” is most likely a disk image stored on the system’s SSD It is considered. A real physical DVD.
On the Windows desktop, NTDEV moves around a bit to demonstrate a “proof of concept”. Here we can see that the RAM disk is 3.87GB and only 324MB is left. Task Manager shows that my PC has an AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS and that the virtual machine has 8 GB of memory allocated, of which 4 GB is available and 1.3 GB is used by Windows. is shown.
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This is an interesting project for anyone interested in using lightweight live images of the latest versions of Windows for things like testing. If something goes wrong with your computer, you might be a familiar friend, but in 2023 a USB stick might be more practical than a ‘DVD’. A set of pre-installed software tools — or you can always create your own.
NTDEV recently released Tiny10 for older slow PCs. We previously reported on Tiny11, which allows you to embed the latest Microsoft OS into your system with as little as 200MB of RAM.
