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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: How to install stacker
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.233624.18160@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <5750.1100.uupcb@satalink.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:36:24 GMT
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- In <5750.1100.uupcb@satalink.com> 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. Let's hear some concrete evidence that
- >there's a problem associated with swapping the drive letters, since
- >I've done it for many months, and everyone that I've talked to with
- >Stacker and a single drive also does that. Since I've had no problems,
- >and have heard of none from other folks, on what basis do you make
- >your projections of doom if you use SSWAP? Personal experience?
- >Someone else's experience? Old wives tale?
-
- Fine. Things work great now. You install something that that needs
- to go into your CONFIG.SYS, and it has overlays or requires other
- files that don't appear in your CONFIG.SYS. You edit your CONFIG.SYS
- and suddenly things stop working because you changed the order in
- which your Stacker drive gets mounted and gets its letter changed.
- Maybe it won't boot at all now. Or perhaps you update something in a
- package like that, and it winds up not getting to the partition it
- needs to be on (you install it to C:, except C: is D: until SSWAP
- runs).
-
- Sure, you can avoid problems if you're careful and always keep a
- working boot floppy with the appropriate drivers on it somewhere, but
- a lot of people just aren't that careful and don't do either backups
- OR keep a boot floppy.
-
- Why make things unnecessarily complicated when they don't have to be?
- It just makes it easier to 'forget' and make a mistake, or have some
- package that does things 'automagically' for you on install hose you
- up.
-
- The fact that none of these things seem to have occurred to you just
- shows you how easily they can happen.
-
- --
- "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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- Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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