Hello Claus,
> Maybe SMS is not capable of that big partitions? Haven't tried yet. My
> biggest QLWA file system is 512 MB.
>
Before Linux I was using a 6Gb disk partitioned into 3 x 2Gb using
mkpart and formatted from SMSQ v2.97 and have had no problems. I did
have to experiment to find the optimum number of partitions and sizes,
in order to get the number of clusters as close to 65535 as possible
and minimize the number of unallocated sectors (the difference between
the size selected in mkpart and the number reported free by DIR). I
did write the numbers down but knowing me it was probably on the back
of an envelope :O)
There are plenty of partitioning and formatting options to experiment
with during the approaching long winter evenings...
> For me Linux is not the OS of my ultimate dreams. It just helps me
when
> SMS/QDOS ceases to help me.
My sentiments exactly. I will probably settle on a smaller disk, say
8Gb and go 50:50 SMSQ:Linux. Well, I don't dream about OSs (I hope!)
- but I know what you mean - the only OS I've used that has come close
to being 'the ultimate' for me, was the proprietary GCOS6 on the
Honeywell DPS6 range. In fact when we began to move away from that and
into Unix in the late 1980s it was like losing an old friend; Unix
really felt inferior. That would be an interesting project - a version
of GCOS running on the Q40. It was written in assembler and the DPS6
CPU architecture and instruction set had similarities to the 68k with
its 7 address registers, 7 data registers and similar addressing modes.
> 2.2.17 sources are also on CDR, but not as RPM, it's a
> tar/gzip archive in cdistr/misc-sources/linux-2.2.17.tar.gz
Thanks for pointing that out. I really haven't explored the CD enough
yet.
> Weird, I don't see much difference in loading time between 2.2.6 and
> 2.2.17.
I booted 2.2.17 last night and it didn't seem as slow, but then I
wasn't sitting in front of it waiting; "a watched pot never boils!".
Ian.
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