#2.04 Startup
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David,
it seem`s you`r right. I made the changes you recommented and it work`s
o.k. now. I don`t understand why this comes up now, I use the
"Startup-sequence" like this for a long time without changes. O.k. the ENV
– requester I have as long I run 2.04, but I cancelled him always and no
problems after. (Now is o.k. after I moved "BindDrivers") But the "SetMap"
– problems I have only a short while. So I don`t know who takes the – ":"
– away after ENVARC. Has this dump machine his own live ??????
Thanks, and have a "Happy new year"
– Horst – all the way from northern Germany BY AUTOPILOT !!!!
Horst,
Glad that you got everything working properly. 8)
Sometimes install scripts edit the startup-sequence, and, sometimes,
those install scripts do strange things if your startup-sequence is
different than the script's author expected it to be. It's also easy
to accidently delete something like a ':' when you're poking around
the file in an editor, and not notice it. Other than that, I don't
really have any suggestions as to why it might have been changed.
Since I upgraded to 2.04, I've tried to observe the convention of
making my changes in user-startup, and have only on a couple of rare,
necessary occasions changed something in the Commodore supplied
startup-sequence file. I did notice that your startup-sequence file
is significantly different than mine, which is almost stock. I'm not
saying that it's a problem that yours is different, just that you
might be more vulnerable to little annoyances like this.
Again, glad that I could help out a bit, and Happy New Year to you.
8)
David,
you`r maybe right with your suggestion in using "user-startup" and I will
think it over to change it to the way you suggested. But on the other hand
I would have some problems setting up "VD0:" as ram-drive, and I don`t
like working with "RAD:" or "RAM-DISK" of C=. The ASDG-ramdevice is easier
to handle (I think) and more stable in case of reset`s. I have VD0: set to
2 MB and no problems whatsoever, with the RAD: I had to many "GURU –
Medetations" so I went to VD0:
The only thing is to run "user-startup" at the beginning of the "Startup –
sequence", this may help`s.
PS. I have only 12 hour`s to 1993, you have to wait a little more !!!!!
All the best to you all.
– Horst – all the way from northern Germany BY AUTOPILOT !!!!
Horst,
Installing VD0: is one of those things that should be in
startup-sequence near the beginning. (i.e., it's one of the
exceptions) Chances are that you definitely _don't_ want to move
user-startup to the beginning of startup-sequence. Usually,
user-startup is used to set up program specific assigns or
environments, and to run your own scripts, as well as other system
programs that aren't required to be in a specific place in the
startup-sequence.
I used to use VD0: under 1.2/1.3 when I had a floppy-based system, but
didn't bother with it when I upgraded to a hard disk based system. In
general, I prefer not to use rrd's because it's too easy for the
programs/data in the rrd to get trashed by the same program that caused
the machine to crash. In my own case, I decided to wait the extra few
seconds during reboot rather than risk using bad programs/data.
David
David,
I started using VD0: while I was using a 40 MB harddisk with OMTI –
controller. I had always problems with this dumd controller while I was
downloading something. Everytime the HD started running while downloads I
get always messed up carriers. So I downloaded to VD0: and all the Problems
where gone. Now I have a 105 MB HD with SCSI controller and this one is
much faster so maybe I can download to the HD now.
– Horst –
– via Whap!