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- From: paul@acus1.cc.uky.edu (paul linton)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: a couple of questions (INSTALLP)
- Summary: installp, ramdisk, etc
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.150923.6837@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 15:09:23 GMT
- Sender: news@ms.uky.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Kentucky
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- First question:
- back when 3.1 wasn't "GOLD" i was getting updates about every week or two
- and i learned one could 'copy' the install tape to disk and do install/update
- with the directory being the install device and it saved LOTS of time once
- the installation began. I wanted to do this with the latest tape I received
- but I havent done the above in a long time. I tried (restore -Tf/dev/rmt0.1)
- but it said not in backup format. Any ideas?
-
- Second question:
- what would be the 'brick walls' run into if someone were to want to write
- a device driver to create a RAMDISK? Is there a way to have a program
- 'lock down' a block of memory so that it doesn't get swapped? Other than
- the 'difficulties' in writing a device driver would there be any obvious
- problems with this particular one? (I'm not worried about the 'data loss'
- factor invloved with a power loss).
-
- Thanks
-
- Paul
-