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From: alexis@panix.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: CD ROMs, graphics accellerators, memory management & AUX
Message-ID: <738@panix.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jun 90 07:58:53 GMT
References: <8663@uswat.UUCP>
Reply-To: alexis@panix.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Organization: PANIX - Public Access Computer Systems of NY
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In article <8663@uswat.UUCP> russell@uswat.uswest.com (Russell Greenlee) writes:
>1. Several months ago someone in this group suggested the idea of
>running AUX partially from the CD ROM and partially from disk, with
>the goal of minimizing the amount of disk spaced used for AUX. Can
>this be done? Has anyone tried it?

No problem. The CD-ROM is mountable as a standard file system, so anything not
needed to boot (before the ROM gets mounted) can live on it. In particular,
man pages, games, libraries, etc. Just mount it, and make whatever links are
appropriate.

Don't forget, this sucker is s-l-o-w.

Alexis Rosen
A/UX victim
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