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- From: wolter@cs.tamu.edu (Jan Wolter)
- Subject: Re: boot from CD-ROM?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.215007.16708@tamsun.tamu.edu>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
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- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 21:50:07 GMT
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- This discussion seems to be wandering off on an interesting tangent, but
- the part of the original question that interested me most was the notion
- that you can leave all or part of the operating system on the CD-ROM and
- thus save lots of disk space, so that buying the CD-ROM effectively wins
- you some free disk space. If this is true it might actually be worthwhile
- for me to buy the thing.
-
- It seems obvious to me that you don't want to leave everything on the
- CD-ROM. That's just too slow, plus you could never access anything on any
- other ROM disk because once you take the operating system out of the drive
- you are mostly dead in the water. But certainly the complete works of
- Shakespeare could stay there, as could most of the more rarely used commands.
- My question is, how much else could?
-
- Thus my question is, if I cough up the money for a CD-ROM, how much disk
- space will I be able to free up on my hard-disk by leaving rarely used stuff
- off?
- - jan
-