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From: lphillips@lpami.van-bc.UUCP (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Faster Bootup (was: Suggestion for 1.4)
Message-ID: <1813@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jun 88 19:34:13 GMT
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In <1249@csuna.UUCP>, acphssrw@csuna.UUCP (Stephen R. Walton) writes:
> [some stuff about speeding up boots and the ( T: | :T ) directory]

  Better still, don't use EXECUTE at all (or filezap the :T to T: if you
must), but instead use a technique that doesn't require a temporary file.
My startup-sequence looks something like this:

   binddrivers                  ; use mount if applicable
   DH0:NewCLI from DH0:HDStart
   DH0:EndCLI >NIL:

The rest of the startup sequence is, of course contained in the file
DH0:HDStart, which is on a small, Old File System partition. By small, I
mean it's 1 cylinder long on my Seagate ST225, and contains just what's
needed to get the FFS up and running on the other partition. If you're
using the Old File System or FFS with a drive that is MOUNTed rather than
BINDDRIVERed, you can go directly for the commands in the DHn:C and for the
script file in DHn:S

-larry

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