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From: ksand@appleoz.oz.au (Kent Sandvik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac,aus.mac
Subject: Re: Advice and Comments on Mac IIci and RasterOps Product
Message-ID: <978@appleoz.oz.au>
Date: 22 Feb 90 02:13:34 GMT
References: <297@comperex.oz>
Reply-To: ksand@appleoz.oz.AU (Kent Sandvik)
Organization: Cyberspace Networking Group, Apple
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tony@comperex.cx.oz (Tony Williams) writes in article <297@comperex.oz>:
      
      	Lastly, I would eventually like to run A/UX and would like to know
      what RAM requirements people have found effective and also whether creating 
      a separate partition on a disk has any benefit to creating a separate disk 
      for A/UX - if partitioning what size has been found affective.
                                          Many thanks in advance
      					
2 Mb   - runs, but that's all
4 Mb   - runs OK with basic UNIX facilities and Mac binary emulation
6-8 Mb - now we could use X Windows properly
> 8Mb  - bliss...

Note that the basic installation program for A/UX assumes standard partition
sizes when you install the product from tape/floppy/CD-ROM:

I.e. about 55Mb Root partition, 15Mb swap, 2-3 Mb each for the hidden eschatology
partitions.

You could break these rules by copying the stuff over to a disk from another
A/UX hard disk. HD setup with Apple hard disks, and Rodime disk partition
utilities handle A/UX partitions, as well as a utility called "Silverlining".

If you have another TPV hard disks you want to use for A/UX, you need to hack
the partition tables with the dp command from A/UX.

Kent
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Kent Sandvik, Network Ninja         --  Apple Australia Developer Tech Support
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