home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: Norway.EU.net!usenet
- From: patrick.hanevold@login.eunet.no (Patrick Hanevold)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Want to boot FAAAST?
- Date: 4 Mar 1996 14:01:54 GMT
- Organization: EUnet Norway
- Message-ID: <1830.6637T867T484@login.eunet.no>
- References: <199.6630T608T838@login.eunet.no> <347.6631T956T857@stud.cs.uit.no><4h1kau$me4@news.ox.ac.uk>
- <827.6634T6T467@login.eunet.no> <4h7k0s$3n9@maureen.teleport.com> <1820.6636T32T2072@Redrobe.demon.co.uk>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: pc6.asker-pm2-1.eunet.no
- X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP)
-
-
-
- >>: BTW: That 3 secs. is from the HD light turns on, to the WB is finish with
- >>: refreshing and all that. Think its impossible? Well its not.
- >>: If you dont believe me, well just think its a trojan and forget all
- >>: about it. I dont mind.
-
- >> Do you mind describing what is behind this program?
- >> Does it require any disk space for caching? or memory ?
- >> is this for clean reboot only or work with a crashed machine too?
- >> I rarely if ever reset without beying forced too buy a crash.
-
- >> But I have to say the 3 second figure sound amazing.
-
- >> Stephan
-
- >WHAT CAN I SAY - AMAZING!
-
- >(sorry for shouting but this is the best thing since the RAD: disk..)
-
- >I finally plucked up the courage to run it (after backups ;)
- >My boot time is 5 secs!
-
- >I have a 4 meg file in devs: which seems to be a "grabbed" snapshot of memory
- >just after wb has loaded....
-
- >S'funny I thought such a programs was unfeaseable...but here it is..
-
- >So the boot time is the time to load that 4 meg file!
-
- >Waheeyy aint amigas great!
-
- >One little point though:
-
- >I have a lot of stuff in my wbstartup drawer, so the 1st grabbed snapshot
- >froze the system; wb hadnt finished booting.
- >Simple solution though changed the wait from 3 secs to 15 secs....
-
- >Oh, yeah how do I stop having 2 sets of volume icons...diskchange adds
- >another set :(
-
- >BTW I'm also using AFS so don't worry about it ;)
-
- >Thanks Patrick, I thought it was a hoax, but I'll never flame a binary poster
- >again...well not for a bit ;)
-
- Hehe.. see guys, no virus. :)
-
- Two sets of icons? Thats strange. I just see a refresh.
- Anyone else having this problem?
-
- 4 megs? You must have a LOT in your bootup. Sounds like the perfect FastBoot
- user. :)
-
- <sb>Patrick Hanevold - Virtual Reality developer
- <sb>patrick.hanevold@login.eunet.no
- <sb>Amiga and official Be developer
-
-