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From: david@starsoft.hou.tx.us (Dave Lowrey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: How should I organize the contents of the Harddisk?
Message-ID: <david.0961@starsoft.hou.tx.us>
Date: 3 May 91 13:35:38 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Organization: Starbound Software Group
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In article <3187@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil> nfs1675@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil (Michael S Figg) writes:
>
> In article <1991Apr30.000254.15229@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>, s902113@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Luke Mewburn) writes:
> >
> > Well, a good organisation is this:
> > - Small (maybe less than 1Mb, or even just 250K) OFS boot partition, which
> >   mounts the other FFS partitions, and transfers control to the second.
> >
>        .
>        .
>        .
> > Boot off the first partition, assign the vital stuff to the second partition
> > (the 2 - 5 Mb one) [you can use a short program call 'MoveSYS' to do all
> > the assigns like C: DEVS: L: LIBS: FONTS: SYS: (etc) to the second partition.
>
>
> What needs to be in the first (OFS) partition? Just S:?  Is this changed
> with 2.0?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> ---Mike,
>

Here is what is in my small OFS boot partition:

System:
System/FastMemFirst

Trashcan:

Trashcan.info

bin:
bin/MemPri

c:
c/Assign           c/CD               c/Dir              c/Echo
c/Mount            c/NewCli           c/Run              c/SetCPU
c/SetPatch         c/StopClick        c/execute          c/if

devs:
devs/Mountlist                        devs/mountlist.hd
devs/system-configuration

l:
l/Disk-Validator         l/FastFileSystem

libs:
libs/arp.library         libs/icon.library

s:
s/CardROMList           s/small-start           s/startup-sequence
s/startupii

This is a total of 110853 bytes.

I have included a couple of non-necessary items, such as SetCpu, StopClick,
MemPri, and Arp.

The first few line of my startup sequence look like this:

SetPatch >NIL:
SYS:System/FastMemFirst
:bin/MemPri -5 c00000
c:SetCPU fastrom CARDROM s:CardROMList verbose
stopclick 3a0000
;
mount fh0: from devs:MountList.HD
mount fh1: from devs:MountList.HD
mount fh3: from devs:MountList.HD
assign sys: fh0:
assign c: SYS:c
assign L: SYS:l
assign FONTS: SYS:fonts
assign S: SYS:s
assign DEVS: SYS:devs
assign LIBS: SYS:libs
....

At this point, I am done with the boot disk.

One other small point to remember....If you change preferences, you need
to copy devs:system-configuration to the devs directory in your boot
partition.

Dave

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