| From: | Craig Blackman |
| Date: | 15 Mar 2001 at 10:21:16 |
| Subject: | Re: [D5] Re: Stall while loading |
On 12-Mar-01 17:19:33, [D5] Re: Stall while loading, Matthias Bethke typed:
>On 13-mar-01 Craig wrote:
>> ENVARC: has always been on your HD. Look in sys:prefs/env-archive. By
>> simply doing the assignment you are still letting the startup-sequence
>> copy all of env-archive to ram:
>I think if you're able to change the ENV: assign you should also be able to
>comment out the C:copy ENVARC:... line. And I assume that's exactly what
>Keith did :)
I'm not going to assume, what he did not write. Although, it would seem
logical.
>> Actually, if you want the ENV: ENVARC: relationship to work properly use
>> HDENV. It allows you to keep ENV on your HD and retain all the proper
>> AOS relationships.
>I tried it years ago, and it didn't work well. Didn't investigate the cause
>though because I didn't like the HD rattling all the time anyway. But it
>should only make a difference to Keith's simple assignment if some broken
>software writes to ENVARC: but not to ENV: when you save its settings.
You might not have had something done right in the startup-sequence, if
you were having problems. Both HDENV and HappyENV's instructions are
pretty good at telling you what to change in the startup-sequence but it
is easy to make a mistake. I found that once installed, I really
couldn't tell that they were running vice the standard OS setup.
I've been using either HappyENV or HDENV for years. I have never
experienced HD rattling or excessive HD activity. Even though I have
plenty of RAM, I finally settled on HDENV when I got very fast drives on
the CSPPC SCSI. I see no reason to not use one of the two. My only real
reason for their use is a quick bootup even with a very large env.
BTW on an additional item. I finally installed BlizKick and am using all
of its options, including the breakup and inclusion of the ROMUPDATE. So
far everything in Dopus has worked flawlessly along with the rest of my
system.
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