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From: cosell@cosell.bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Coping with 880K disks
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Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 18:09:12 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 21 18:09:12 1987
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I appreciate your all suffering my dumb questions (e.g., inquiring about
the broken TrashCan) as I try to get my Amiga set up to fit into
my at-home ecology.  Today's problem: I am REALLY hamstrung by having
a too-full WorkBench disk.  I've now pared the thing down BELOW
what I find convenient, and I still only have 28 free blocks.
Since I'm already hassled by not having some stuff at-hand that I'd
like, I'm not excited about the possibility of throwing MORE stuff
off of my disk.

What to folk generally do about this?  I know the easy but expensive
answer is just to buy a hard disk, but that's not really an option
for me at the moment.

Here's my best guess of "something to do", and I'd appreciate any random
comments or suggestions you folk might have about it, in particular,
or this whole morass,  in general.

I think the heart of my approach to this is to go out and try to find
some kind of ramdisk that survives warm boots (VD0 or some such?  PD?
I'm planning to go to my local Amiga dealer and ask if he can help me
find the thing)  THEN I'm going to try to convince myself that I can
tolerate the noise of the fan (this will probably be the sticking point
of this whole plan... I find the fan on my 2000 annoyingly loud).
THEN... I'll slim my WB disk down to nearly nothing and supplement it
with a FULL disk of "other goodies" and then modify my startup-sequence
so that it will copy all of the stuff from the "other" disk into
the VD0 device.  Thus, when I reboot after a power-outage, I'll
have to go on a longish excursion to get the ramdisk loaded up,
but presumably then it will all stay there over warm boots and
rebooting to hack Flight Simulator and the like...

Does this make sense?  Are there better/cleverer tricks?

Thanks..
  /Bernie\

ps, how do you turn OFF "no fast mem"?  I think that generally I only
want a *particular*program* not to be subverted by running into the
fast mem, but it seems that if I click on nofastmem, I've basically
crippled the amiga for ALL programs.  Do I misunderstand the whole
mess again?  /b\

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