tomv@sequent.UUCP (Tom Van Raalte) (10/17/89)
I'm planning on getting A/UX going on my SE/30. Does anyone know if the 80meg disk that Apple supplies is big enough to hold A/UX and still have enough room left for some work. I want to use the partitions on my internal drive for MAC OS. Thanks in advance. Tom Van Raalte (Computer Rooter) uunet!sequent!tomv
jnelson@tle.enet.dec.com (Jeff E. Nelson) (10/18/89)
> I'm planning on getting A/UX going on my SE/30. > Does anyone know if the 80meg disk that Apple supplies > is big enough to hold A/UX and still have enough room > left for some work. I want to use the partitions on > my internal drive for MAC OS. Good luck. The last time I saw, the distribution leaves only a 2 meg MAC OS partition. Given that the MAC OS itself takes about a meg, there's not much left. I have a procedure that increases the MAC OS partition to 10 meg, but at a price: swap space is reduced and both eschatology (auto-recovery) partitions are removed. (My understanding is that the eschatology partitions are used to boot a minimalist A/UX in case your Unix file system gets trashed; the partitions provide a minimal system in which you can restore the file system from your backups.) If you need more than 10 meg or if you don't want to remove the eschatology partitions nor reduce swap space, I suggest you investigate other alternatives: use floppies or get another disk. -Jeff E. Nelson -Digital Equipment Corporation -Internet: jnelson@tle.enet.dec.com -Affiliation given for identification purposes only. -Opinions expressed herein are not to be construed -as either an official statement from or position of -Digital Equipment Corporation.