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From: greg@bilbo (Greg Wageman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Auto Ram Disk
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Date: 30 Mar 88 20:41:29 GMT
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In article <9584@sunybcs.UUCP> ugptucha@sunybcs.UUCP (Ray Ptucha) writes:
>
>Does anyone out there know of a program that allows you to boot
>up your system with a ram disk installed complete with files in it?
>
>I am currently using Rdy-disk Ram from MWC.  I would like to be able
>to turn on the power to my system and when my prompt appears I already 
>have my ram disk installed with the compiler, editor, etc.
>

You've already got it.  I use the Rdy Ram disk, too...  MWC's doc was
a little hazy, as I recall, but what you need to do, only once, is
move all of the files into the ram disk that you want there after
boot, then use the ram disk install utility to save the current ram
disk (the option may be "backup ram disk"; I'm at work and don't have
the doc. here and haven't used that facility in a while).  Replace the
version you had been booting with the newly saved version.  When next
you reboot, all the files that were in the ram disk when you saved it
will be there.

BTW, I have had zero problems with Rdy, once I got it installed.  It's
a great tool.  Just beware of power failures (Ouch!), spend
Big Buck$ on an Uninterruptable Power Supply, buy a hard disk, or make
frequent backups of your source to floppy.  I do the latter.  It's a
good idea anyway unless you write perfect programs the first time :-)
since a wayward program can damage a ram disk.  This has been the
Voice of Experience (VoE) broadcasting on the 10Mhz Ethernet band...


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