lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) (10/15/90)
In <40860@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, v092mgp5@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott K Wood) writes: > Since I am not one of the fortunate owners of a 3000 (yet!), I am not >currently able to enjoy to pleasures of 2.0, por so I thought. A developer >friend of mine loaned me his developer's version of 2.0. It has Kickstart >in a 512K file on a disk. Apparently a program included, called KickIt, >reads this file, puts it in RAM and boots the system with it. Here is the >problem. When running KickIt, the program says I need 524,000+ (512K) bytes >of continuous memory. It seems to believe cries that I don't have this. I >am running a 500 with 1 MEG of memory. I find it hard to believe that after >a warm boot, I don't have that much continous memory. Does anyone know >what could be going on here and how to fix it? Is it due to the CHIP/FAST >RAM differentiation made my the OS? Help...I wanna see 2.0!!! CHIP/FAST differentiation is made by both the OS and the hardware, and are not contiguous with one another. The best way to fix it is to become a developer, learn about the machine, and run a legal version of 2.0 on a machine that can handle it. -larry -- It is not possible to both understand and appreciate Intel CPUs. -D.Wolfskill +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
v092mgp5@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott K Wood) (10/16/90)
Since I am not one of the fortunate owners of a 3000 (yet!), I am not
currently able to enjoy to pleasures of 2.0, por so I thought. A developer
friend of mine loaned me his developer's version of 2.0. It has Kickstart
in a 512K file on a disk. Apparently a program included, called KickIt,
reads this file, puts it in RAM and boots the system with it. Here is the
problem. When running KickIt, the program says I need 524,000+ (512K) bytes
of continuous memory. It seems to believe cries that I don't have this. I
am running a 500 with 1 MEG of memory. I find it hard to believe that after
a warm boot, I don't have that much continous memory. Does anyone know
what could be going on here and how to fix it? Is it due to the CHIP/FAST
RAM differentiation made my the OS? Help...I wanna see 2.0!!!
Scott
BITNET : v092mgp5@ubvms.bitnet
INTERNET : v092mgp5@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edubillsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour) (10/19/90)
In article <40860@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v092mgp5@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
:
: Since I am not one of the fortunate owners of a 3000 (yet!), I am not
:currently able to enjoy to pleasures of 2.0, por so I thought. A developer
:friend of mine loaned me his developer's version of 2.0. It has Kickstart
:in a 512K file on a disk. Apparently a program included, called KickIt,
:reads this file, puts it in RAM and boots the system with it. Here is the
:problem. When running KickIt, the program says I need 524,000+ (512K) bytes
:of continuous memory. It seems to believe cries that I don't have this. I
:am running a 500 with 1 MEG of memory. I find it hard to believe that after
:a warm boot, I don't have that much continous memory. Does anyone know
:what could be going on here and how to fix it? Is it due to the CHIP/FAST
:RAM differentiation made my the OS? Help...I wanna see 2.0!!!
:
: Scott
: BITNET : v092mgp5@ubvms.bitnet
: INTERNET : v092mgp5@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu
First of all, the developer 'friend' of your has signed an agreement
with Commodore to specifically *not* do just what he's apparently done. You
have no right to even be trying to use the developers version unless you got
it from Commodore.
Secondly, you will not be able to use that version unless you have
real autoconfig memory on your 500. Get in touch with CATS and become a
developer if you want to do anything with 2.0 until it's released.
--
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