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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: How to install stacke
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.163249.2998@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <5786.1100.uupcb@satalink.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:32:49 GMT
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- In <5786.1100.uupcb@satalink.com> john.will@satalink.com (John Will) writes:
-
- >FJ>I've never done it to myself because I never ran SSWAP on my machine.
- >FJ>I've seen a number of people around here hose themselves with it,
- >FJ>though. Why make things unnecessarily complex so you can load another
- >FJ>device driver?
-
- >If you knew anything about SSWAP, you'd know it's a transient, in other
- >words, it occupies zero bytes. Not exactly a huge problem, no? I've
- >been here for months, I've never seen any significant Stacker problems
- >mentioned that were the result of using SSWAP.
-
- And if you knew anything, you'd know that just because you personally
- haven't seen problems doesn't mean they can't or don't exist,
- particularly given your lengthy "for months" presence "here", wherever
- "here" may be.
-
- I HAVE personally seen such problems, having been exposed to Stacker
- on quite a number of machines over somewhat more than "months", and it
- makes no difference to me whether SSWAP permanently takes up space in
- the driver chain or not. I suppose I should rephrase that slightly,
- though, given the number of people who seem to be looking for a fight.
- I haven't seen STACKER problems, either. What I've seen are machines
- that won't boot because things are on the 'wrong' partition at boot
- time, software that won't work for similar reasons, users who are
- confused about what to fix and where, things being hosed by
- 'automatic' installation procedures that change things without telling
- the user (or that tell the user, but the user is confused as to which
- is really his boot drive), etc.
-
- Do what you want. Good luck.
-
- --
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- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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