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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!rei2!fox
- From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
- Subject: Re: How to install stacker
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.223742.11978@rei.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:37:42 GMT
- References: <5750.1100.uupcb@satalink.com>
- Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.
- Lines: 40
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- john.will@satalink.com (John Will) writes:
-
- >FJ>If you have let Stacker 'swap' the drives, so that your 390 MB stacked
- >FJ>drive is seen as C, you are simply asking for trouble (IMHO).
-
- >You keep saying that, but I see absolutely no rational reasoning
- >associated with your caution.
-
- The reason is that many configuration management software programs (such
- as less-than-immediately-recent versions of QEMM's OPTIMIZE, install
- programs such as WINDOWS, etc.) can become extremely confused when the
- boot drive is not drive C: but actually D:. SSWAP does some interesting
- magic in order to try to circumvent the confusion, but it is not always
- successful, and this can lead to confusion if the user is not completely
- up on what's going on.
-
- Further, confused software can install its drivers on a compressed drive
- which will not be available yet when the driver is loaded, and other
- nasty things. While refraining from SSWAP won't solve every problem, it
- can generally be guaranteed that if you don't use it, anything placed on
- drive C: will be the real thing which is always available at any time
- during boot, and nothing will need to be copied around in order to make
- the boot succeed.
-
- These reasons (and others) are why I recommend that users who are not
- closely familiar with the computer's operation should stay away from
- SSWAP. However, I do recognize that there is a class of users who have
- a use for SSWAP. Users who have a LARGE amount of software installed
- may enjoy the convenience of not having to reconfigure the software.
- Users who rarely (if ever) change their configuration or install new
- software which requires driver updates will probably never run into
- problems with SSWAP. SSWAP does not cause many problems when your
- configuration stays the same, but in the future when you might decide
- to change it, then it can well cause many unforseen problems.
-
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