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Date:	Mon, 13 May 2002 11:30:10 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Partitioning Scheme

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Ray Davison replied to me:

> > This in fact turned out to be one of the giant banana peels we kept skidding
> > on for quite some time. SC will apparently make no difference in this regard.
> > This does not bode at all well for my original plan, which was to drop ECS
> > into L:, decidedly beyond that point.
> >
> Why do you want to?
> What is your reaction to my suggested layout?

That works for you; the scheme I planned (which Tony outlined in his posts a
week or so ago) works for me. By this point, I'm heavily invested in my partition-
ing scheme, which is closely based on the scheme from my old boot drive, albeit
with some larger partition sizes. In a way, it becomes a house of cards, and
tinkering with it screws up everything else. I really wanted to place ECS just
where indicated. It was relayed to me that Steven had said something about
this _maybe_ being possible, using a Testcase kernel (plus a bootloader, a la
NT/W2K ?). If so, I'm still not sure I want to build a production ECS partition
around something that complex and possibly unstable.

The much less appealing alternatives I see are as follows: At the moment, I have an
empty 500M., alternate primary C:, and a DOS App.s D: of the same size whose
contents could perhaps be merged into another partition which mostly contains DOS
App.s. It would then be contiguous -- no need for using ad-hoc volumes. But that
would only free up 1Gig, for ECS, and I had planned on having it in a 2G partition.
It might also be possible to place ECS on the 2nd., smaller hard drive (which is far
less rigorously spoken for), enough below the 8G. point that it would boot. But I'd
still rather do it per the original plan.

Jordan

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