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From: name@portiaStanford.EDU (tony cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Help with A/UX 1.1 on 3rd Party drive
Keywords: A/UX 1.1 X11R4 3rd Party Drives
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Date: 7 Jun 90 03:08:53 GMT
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In article <2337@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>, liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William
Roberts) writes:
> In <167@cis9.INGR.COM> lenoirjw@INGR.COM (Billy Lenoir) writes:
> 
> >I am having a little problem with my installation of A/UX.  I have it
installed
> >on a 3rd party hard drive with the X11R4 installed.  Anytime I run Xwindows
> >my MacOS partition is wiped out.  I suspect that A/UX is using it for swap
> >space!?!  The swap partition is set up as:
> 
> It would be helpful to see the complete output of dp, and the
> output of kconfig -va /unix; I'll read the entrails if you care

Yes, we need more information on this one. What do you mean by "wiped out"?
Is the partition still there but the data in it is trash? Or do you have
to repartition the drive again? It seems doubtful that swap space is
overflowing since X Windows has to be really pushed hard to use more than
15 thousand blocks (I have seven windows and 5 X applications plus 3 xterms
right now and using 8000 blocks). It seems doubtful that A/UX is deliberately
doing anything to the MacOS partitions since it ignores them completely
(under A/UX 1.1 that is). And does the wiping out happen everytime or just
sometimes?

Cheers,
Tony Cooper
tony@popserver.stanford.edu