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- >>>>> "Clay" == Clay Helberg <helberg@maddog.fammed.wisc.edu> writes:
- In article <4drkfj$25ig@news.doit.wisc.edu> helberg@maddog.fammed.wisc.edu (Clay Helberg) writes:
-
-
- StarMan (StarMan@Galaxy.com) wrote: I can't seem to run 1.99q,
- StarMan> even from dos. The system just stops. Tried using the
- StarMan> switch to disable my drive d, since it's compressed with
- StarMan> Drivespace 3, and got a message asking for disk b, then
- StarMan> it stops. No startup screen, have to warm boot. Any
- StarMan> suggestions? (Tried the VESA drive on the ARDI site, but
- StarMan> I have an ATI Pro Turbo, so VESA 2 is not the problem).
-
- Clay> You might try letting the system sit for a couple of
- Clay> minutes--my machine sits "dead" for about 2 minutes (!),
- Clay> then it starts Executor and everything seems to work fine.
-
- Both Clay and StarMan should try
-
- executor -macdrives "" -dosdrives ""
-
- and see if that prevents Executor from spending large amount of times
- starting up. Executor jumps through a lot of hoops trying to figure
- out what disk drives are on your system (including network drives and
- CDs) and it is possible that it is hitting a drive or multiple drives
- that may not even be there that cause Executor to wait until some
- built-in timer expires.
-
- The above combination of switches tells Executor that you have no Mac
- drives or DOS drives and to not bother looking (beyond the DOS drive
- that you ran Executor from). If you know that you want to access
- drive G as a Mac drive and drives A, C, D and E as DOS drives you can
- say:
-
- executor -macdrives g -dosdrives ac-e
-
- and then all the other potential drives will be ignored. In general
- users *shouldn't* have to do this, but PCs just have too many
- configurations for Executor/DOS to do the right thing. Linux users
- have less trouble.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
-
-