Re: tlug: Failed at the first post.

["Stewart Dow" <stewart@example.com>]

>Matt Gushee writes:
>
> > My educated guess is that the worst culprits are your Registry files,
> > SYSTEM.DAT and USER.DAT.
>
>Since you seem to know what you're doing, I didn't say this the first
>time, but *just in case*: you definitely don't want to delete those
>files, but if you back them up, delete the originals, and copy them
>again to there original names, the should get out of the way. If that
>is actually the problem.

I wouldn't say that I really know what I am doing but thanks anyway. I'll
have a go at copying - deleting - copying any files that I can think of ...
I had a quick look for the utility SHOWFAT.EXE and found some references to
it - some went as far back as 1993 and talked about 8086's ! - but couldn't
find the utility itself.  I'll have another look when I get home.

>
>Rex Walters writes:
>
> > I don't do windows, but I suspect your problem is with virtual memory.
> > Under the control panel somewhere (advanced sumpinerother) you can tell
> > it to not allocate any disk space for VM.  Do that, defrag, then you
> > should be able to fips as you want.  Then you can go back into windows
> > and set up whatever windows calls its pseudo-swap stuff.
>
>Maybe. This reminds me of something. Sounds like you're a little
>pressed for disk space, so you might want to set up a common swap
>partition so that you don't have to allocate space for a swap file in
>you Windoze area. There's a HOWTO on doing that {
>http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/
>} ... slightly tricky, but it worked quite well for me.

I actually had disabled the virtual memory before running the Windows
defragmenter and it certainly made a difference but there are still a few
"unmovable objects" kicking around and it only takes one to mess everything
up.

Setting up a common swap file sounds like a good idea - I'll have a look at
the link tonight.  I am a little pressed for disk space. Getting Linux
installed onto the Laptop is more of a learning project than anything else.
The next stage is to get my company's internet server running under Apache
rather than NT4.  I won't be using the laptop for that but thinking about it
perhaps I should. Once I have done that....who knows what I'll think of
doing next.

Thanks for your help anyway.

Stewart Dow, AIService, Tokyo

stewart@example.com





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