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From: gchunt@hellgate.utah.edu (Galen Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Slab on its side and odmach
Keywords: odmach
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.024837.4103@albion.utah.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 02:48:37 GMT
Sender: gchunt@albion.utah.edu (Galen Hunt)
Organization: University of Utah
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I have two questions for those of you that are in the know:

1) Is there any potential danger in mounting a slab on its side?
   My desk here has a book shelf above it that is not movable and
   the only way I can fit my megapixel display on my desk is to take
   the slab out from underneath it.  Currently my slab is on its side
   between the display and the wall.  The floppy side is up and the 
   bottom of the slab faces towards the display.  Is my system
   going to die in the near future or is this a "healthy" position?

2) I've noticed that in the root directory on a 200MB slab there is a file
   called "odmach".  There is also a file called "sdmach".  I assume that
   "sdmach" is the Mach image used when booting off of the 200MB SCSI drive
   and that "odmach" is the Mach image used when booting off of the 
   optical, but considering that you can't connect an optical to a slab, is
   there any reason why I shouldn't drop "odmach" in the recycler and
   recycle the 700K that it uses?

Thanks for any answers that anyone can give me!

Galen
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Galen C. Hunt                                            gchunt@sunset.utah.edu
Disclaimer: I don't even take credit for what I say so why should anyone else??


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