[net.micro.amiga] Disk Setup for using Lattice

umetcalf@yale.ARPA (Chris Metcalf) (12/30/85)

Here's another way to configure your disks for C compiler work (512k Amiga,
two disk drives).  The basic setup is with three disks.

System:	has everything that the Workbench disk does (though I knocked off
	extra printer devices and .info files) plus any other executables
	you want to have around (ABasiC, Wack utilities, emacs, GfxMem, etc.)
	This can fill the disk to pretty nearly 100%.

CSys:	has the C compiler disk on it (without the examples directories and
	most of the :c directory).  Add to the :c directory the crucial
	executables from System; there's several hundred blocks free.  I
	have emacs as well as almost all of the day-to-day System commands
	here.  Also useful to add is the :l directory from System.  Toss in
	some shell scripts for :s, and you'll fill this disk close to 100%.

Work:	Lots of other disks with nothing but source code on them!  It can
	sometimes be useful to put (say) Avail on these disks, or anything
	else you might want to load from disk while the compiler is
	hungrily chewing on the CSys: disk.

Then, you boot onto System, run a little script to re-"assign" C:, S:, 
L:, and SYS: to the CSys disk.  Now, all your executables (even the
compiler!) are in C:, and your other drive is free for your work disks.
Now the Amiga knows that FONTS:, DEVS:, and LIBS: are available, but
you don't have to keep them online (they're not needed much usually).

Happy Compiling (and here's wishing for a real compiler...),
Chris Metcalf

ps.. I hacked MicroEMACS so cursor and function keys are recognized.  If
anyone is interested in the patches, let me know (note: please send me
your uucp address..  sending ARPA mail out of Yale is a touchy subject.)
-- 
Chris Metcalf (umetcalf@yale-cheops.arpa)	..!decvax!yale!'umetcalf%cheops