cosell@cosell.bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) (10/22/87)
I appreciate your all suffering my dumb questions (e.g., inquiring about the broken TrashCan) as I try to get my Amiga set up to fit into my at-home ecology. Today's problem: I am REALLY hamstrung by having a too-full WorkBench disk. I've now pared the thing down BELOW what I find convenient, and I still only have 28 free blocks. Since I'm already hassled by not having some stuff at-hand that I'd like, I'm not excited about the possibility of throwing MORE stuff off of my disk. What to folk generally do about this? I know the easy but expensive answer is just to buy a hard disk, but that's not really an option for me at the moment. Here's my best guess of "something to do", and I'd appreciate any random comments or suggestions you folk might have about it, in particular, or this whole morass, in general. I think the heart of my approach to this is to go out and try to find some kind of ramdisk that survives warm boots (VD0 or some such? PD? I'm planning to go to my local Amiga dealer and ask if he can help me find the thing) THEN I'm going to try to convince myself that I can tolerate the noise of the fan (this will probably be the sticking point of this whole plan... I find the fan on my 2000 annoyingly loud). THEN... I'll slim my WB disk down to nearly nothing and supplement it with a FULL disk of "other goodies" and then modify my startup-sequence so that it will copy all of the stuff from the "other" disk into the VD0 device. Thus, when I reboot after a power-outage, I'll have to go on a longish excursion to get the ramdisk loaded up, but presumably then it will all stay there over warm boots and rebooting to hack Flight Simulator and the like... Does this make sense? Are there better/cleverer tricks? Thanks.. /Bernie\ ps, how do you turn OFF "no fast mem"? I think that generally I only want a *particular*program* not to be subverted by running into the fast mem, but it seems that if I click on nofastmem, I've basically crippled the amiga for ALL programs. Do I misunderstand the whole mess again? /b\ Bernie Cosell Internet: cosell@bbn.com Bolt, Beranek & Newman, Inc USENET: bbn.com!cosell Cambridge, MA 02238 Telco: (617) 497-3503
higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (10/22/87)
in article <5549@bbn.COM>, cosell@cosell.bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) says: > [insuffient room on his workbench disk] Delete all the fonts, libraries, devices, icons, and commands you don't need. I'm trying to imagine what's taking up all the freed space if you've done this. > ps, how do you turn OFF "no fast mem"? Run it again. > Bernie Cosell Paul.
phils@tekig.TEK.COM (Phil Staub) (10/23/87)
In article <2576@cbmvax.UUCP> higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom SALES) writes:
<in article <5549@bbn.COM>, cosell@cosell.bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) says:
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I'm guessing he put everything in the trashcan without emptying it.
Phil
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