Who says the swap cannot be on a removable disk? I thought the reason for
making it "removable" was just so Windoze wouldn't cache it... Or does Windows
have limits on the drive a swap file can be on?
Eric Laberge wrote:
> Some ideas looks good, but I feel like I have to break yours.
> Unfortunately, even when an operating system doesn't use files, it still
> needs access to its swap file, which I guess would be pretty screwed up
> with a removable disk. Of course, a small system disk image with a big
> "removable" disk for common could do the trick, but it falls back to the
> beginning of the thread, i.e. we must not touch the "fixed" disk.
>
> EL
>
> At 08:18 2000-12-16 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hmm... Or better yet, emulate a DVD-RAM drive... Or something similar to
> >allow for
> >"DVD"-"RW" ;-P
> >
> >calberty wrote:
> >
> > > perhaps a removable disk with large ammounts of media 100+ meg for
> > copying in files
> > > (emulated of course) that isnt saved by the save restore
> > > so if you need to put something new in windows click a button in plex86
> > to emulate an
> > > eject on the system and then you can mount and copy and then turn back
> > on the media
> > > and also be sure to section this out from the cpu capture so that it
> > isnt captured in
> > > save/restore
> > > "Kenneth C. Arnold" wrote:
> > >
