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- From: larry@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Larry Maturo)
- Subject: Re: How to install stacker
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.223127.10171@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:31:27 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.223742.11978@rei.com> fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >--
- >#ifdef TRUE | Fuzzy Fox (a.k.a. David DeSimone) fuzzy@netcom.com
- >#define TRUE 0 |
- >#define FALSE 1 | "911 Emercency Rescue Service - Can you hold, please?"
- >#endif |
-
-
- There is also an advantage to using SSWAP. I bet not many viruses know how to
- install themselves in a non-bootable, non-existent disk. Seriously, have you
- actually run into one of these problems or are they only theoritical? I have
- actually run into a few programs that refuse to run on anything but the C drive
- making SSAWP a necessity if you want to use Stacker. Also, as you point out, it
- is a lot more convient to swap.
-
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