| From: | Colin Wenzel |
| Date: | 16 May 2000 at 03:55:30 |
| Subject: | Re: Block size |
On 15-May-00, Joseph Duchatelet wrote:
> I am using a Syquest drive and noted something along these lines. I
> did call my harddisk boot partition Sys and was not able from there
> to acces my Syquest drive. I renamed the harddsik boot partition
> MySys and from then was able to boot from my Syquest.
>
> Joseph
This is a big mistake people have made over the years.
There was a time when it became "vogue" to assign
every drawer on the WB disk, especially on floppy only
systems.
The utilities drawer was assigned to UTILS: & the
system drawer got assigned to....?.
............. Yes, you guessed it...... sys:
Then they spend the rest of the year trying to figure out why
stuff kept looking for things & couldn't find them.
So, just in case anyone here still doesn't know about SYS:
1) SYS: is the root dir of the "thing" you booted up on.....
2) It is automatically assigned by the O.S & you need do nothing.
3) SYS: should NEVER be assigned to anywhere else...
4) No drive or disk is to be called SYS.
So, pop up a shell & type: ASSIGN
you will get a list of all the assigned devices...
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Colin Wenzel. Australia.
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OS 3.5, EGS Spectrum.
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