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- From: p35750n@kaira.hut.fi (Samu Petteri Lamberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: How to install stacker (was Re: Stacker Misleads)
- Message-ID: <P35750N.92Dec30141511@kaira.hut.fi>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 14:15:11 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com's message of 28 Dec 92 18:22:44 GMT
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- >390 Mb space and the whole setup works just fine. I do not understand,
- >why I shouldn't do it like this.
-
- Which one is your C: drive after the boot completes; the unstacked 15
- MB or the stacked 390 MB?
-
- [In other words, do you have an SSWAP driver loaded for drive C?]
-
- If you have let Stacker 'swap' the drives, so that your 390 MB stacked
- drive is seen as C, you are simply asking for trouble (IMHO).
-
- I've already read this statements in another newsgroup and would like
- to ask you where is this danger you are warning about?
-
- You have the device drivers on the uncompressed partition. You make
- something stupid and mess up your config.sys or just upgrade drivers
- on the wrong disk. Ok. System won't be loaded properly. You'll notice,
- that something has gone wrong becouse all drivers are not loaded and
- alter your config.sys. And reboot. If you just don't loose youre stacker-
- driver, you are safe. Allthough you didn't have _any_ other device drivers
- on this uncompressed partition.
-
- Have you actually ever seen any problems cause by this sswap? That
- some programs after loaded in config.sys would have require the same
- order of drive letters? I haven't. It doesn't meen there wouldn't be
- any but I just mean, that though it might be even safer not to change
- the letters, it's much easier not to have to change all paths of programs
- in Windows etc. And safer too for users who don't understand all
- effects that are caused when the drive letters change if there were
- programs installed when drive was stackered.
-
- About this original question, why make one 400 Mb partition.
-
- 1) Avoiding fragmentation. Someone wrote that you should rather keep
- your windows in one partition. I think there is a lot of sense.
-
- 2) Allthough you loose some flexibility when making smaller partitions,
- you also get some security. The free space doesn't change in that huge
- interval and if something happens, for example a program hangs with opened
- overlays, used writing cache and you happened to get an error to stackered
- disk, the damage couldn't be perfect. Mistakes wouldn't erase all.
-
- 3) If you have one huge partition, you have a billion of directories and
- subdirectories. It's easier to browse through with smaller partitions.
-
- --
- "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.
-
- samu lamberg
- slamberg@lut.fi
-
- ps Leave your stupid computer, go out, breath some fresh air, smile and
- be happy. (Don't do like I do but like I say...)
-