Because the system requires some read/write location in the file system to work with. / Rgds, David On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 11:38 AM, Ray M wrote: > I created a new boot cd that took almost 7 min to boot while the other > took > almost 30 min with a blue screen ; the difference between them is that > the > first one was created with an additional 30 megs of ram disk while the > second only 10 megs. Why does boot cd creates a ram disk???? > > Ray > >> What I found is that booting from the CD on my TiBook, where I created >> the disk, was not overly long - however, booting a couple of different >> flavors of iMac with the disc resulted in very long boot times, or the >> blue screen that Ray describes. >> >> JEL