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From: chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Partitioning RAD:
Message-ID: <282@gtss.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 88 15:02:31 GMT
References: <3012@sugar.uu.net>
Reply-To: chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland)
Organization: Georgia Tech Surface Studies, Atlanta, GA
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Disorganization: you bet

In article <3012@sugar.uu.net> karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
)that RAD: is partitionable.  You can set up fast and slow filesystem
)partitions.
)
)Note that you have to format the partitions before use or you'll get
)"Not a DOS disk."  Apparently, RAD autoformats when it is one big
)filesystem (?).  So for now you have to hit ENTER a couple of times
)during cold start to get your multiple RAD partitions formatted,
)because you'll have format commands in the portion of your startup-sequence 
)that runs when RAD didn't recover or wasn't there and they'll ask you to 
)hit 'enter.'

When I set up RAD: under FFS (but not under SFS), I seemed to have to format
it before using it even though it was a single filesystem, contrary to your
remark above.  I discovered that if you let format take its input from nil:
(format <nil:) it happily accepts the EOF as a sign to continue, so its not
really necessary to hit ENTER.
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