arxt@sphinx.uchicago.edu (patrick palmer) (11/23/88)
I installed 1.3 and autobooting last weekend. It was very easy, thanks to
Go Amigo and GVP. I have a question about rad:
I used to use vd0:. In spite of space being alloted to vd0:, Workbench always
indicated the total amount free, counting only what was actually used in vd0:
, not what was assigned in mountlist. (I was always curious about what would
happen if I filled ram: so that less space was left than was assigned to vd0:,
but it never happened so I never found out.) With 1.3, the space assigned to
rad: is deducted from the available free ram (in the workbench top line - I
really should learn the names of these things). If vd0: really was so
flexible as to allow more ram: to be used when vd0: was not full, I would
prefer to use vd0: - I think.
My questions:
1. Was vd0: as flexible as it appeared to be to the naive user?
2. Is there a good reason to use rad: instead anyway? (I do not
need it for autobooting.)
3. When I tried to install vd0: under 1.3, I screwed everything up
so badly that a warm reboot would not recover. I had just copied
the relevant part of mountlist from 1.2, copied vdisk.device
to the devs directory, and mounted vd0: in my startup sequence as I
had under 1.2. Is there something else that needs to be
changed to install vd0: under 1.3? Or did I just screw up?
Pat Palmer email: arxt@sphinx.uchicago.edu (bitnet or arpanet)
ecphssrw@solaria.csun.edu (Stephen Walton) (11/24/88)
In article <894@tank.uchicago.edu> arxt@sphinx.uchicago.edu (patrick palmer) writes: > > 1. Was vd0: as flexible as it appeared to be to the naive user? Yes. The ASDG-RRD is really a very good product, though I know Andy Finkel isn't too fond of some of the things it does with the system free memory list (the reason vd0: is trashed by FastMemFirst is that it gets its ram from the END of the free list, which FastMemFirst makes the 0xC00000 block complete with destructive detection). > 2. Is there a good reason to use rad: instead anyway? (I do not > need it for autobooting.) Well, if you don't want to autoboot from RAD: you can install FFS on it. Makes it a lot faster (format it first, copy the GlobVec, Mount, DosType, and FileSystem lines from the FAST: entry in the sample MountList with 1.3). > 3. When I tried to install vd0: under 1.3, I screwed everything up > so badly that a warm reboot would not recover. Probably you ran FastMemFirst before mounting VD0:. See above. -- Stephen Walton, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Univ. Northridge RCKG01M@CALSTATE.BITNET ecphssrw@afws.csun.edu swalton@solar.stanford.edu ...!csun!afws.csun.edu!bcphssrw