Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 14:12:57 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kevin McClelland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: overlay programs [LIB]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 02:45:02 +0700 > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: overlay programs [LIB] > > I'm just curious - in a 20/30/40GB HDD L100/L110 scenario, if you're going > to run Win'2K as your one and only OS - are these overlay programs totally > redundant? And if not, what purpose would they serve in such a scenario? > Primarily, I think you would have problems if you had a total system crash and had to reboot from DOS to fix it. At that point you could only see the 8gb, and if the files you needed to fix whatever problem you had were beyond that, they would be inaccessible. With the overlay running, you could still access all your other partitions in DOS. This is the only circumstance that immediately comes to mind. Kevin ------------------------------------------------- Get your free @Elvis e-mail account at Elvis.com! http://www.elvis.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
