Message-Id: <199711050047.LAA16872@rabble.uow.edu.au>
Subject: Using a RAMDISK setup
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com (DJGPP)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 11:47:43 +1100 (EST)
From: Brett Porter <bporter AT rabble DOT uow DOT edu DOT au>
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Hi

I have heard some talk about people using RAMDISKs to speed up the
compilation process.

How exactly do you configure it? Copy all the header files to the disk on
startup?

I have an 8Mb machine, and I realise this is not recommended, but I though I
might play with it and lower the smartdrive settings as increasing
smartdrive from 2Mb to 3Mb had no noticable effect, so I figured I could try
a 1Mb RAMDISK.

If anyone has successfully set up a RAMDISK with 8Mb ( or even 16Mb, I am
thinking of upgrading soon), please send me a copy of your config.sys and
autoexec.bat (maybe just a portion of it that is relevant to DJGPP setup) -
but send it by private email! Don't make the poor NG/mailing list put up
with it.

Also, are you just using RAMDISK.SYS from MSDOS, or are there some (free)
ones I can get off the internet? I have Win95 :(, which doesn't have
RAMDISK.SYS, but I do have MSDOS 6.22 at home (not here at uni.), just be a
while before I can get it.

Thanks
Brett

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