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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: How to install stacker
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.214818.27427@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <5750.1100.uupcb@satalink.com> <1993Jan4.223742.11978@rei.com> <1993Jan7.223127.10171@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:48:18 GMT
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- In <1993Jan7.223127.10171@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu> larry@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Larry Maturo) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- I've personally seen people have these problems, so it is a great deal
- more than 'theoritical'. Why is it that so many people have so much
- trouble understanding and believing this? If you want to use SSWAP,
- by all means use it. I (and a couple of others) are merely warning
- you that it CAN cause problems -- so you should be aware of that if
- you want to use it.
-
- Personally, I still recommendd against it.
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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