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Date:	Thu, 16 May 2002 14:54:10 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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Several days ago, some messages I posted to the List never made
it
there, for whatever reason. This is one of them.

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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. That 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 partitioning 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 (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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