🚀 go-pugleaf

A long time ago, when execute still tried to write to the floppy
even when T: was assigned, I got really annoyed with having my floppy
churn away during startup even when executing from the hard disk
(at that time, my startup on the floppy was only five lines).

A quick speed up that I used (and still use) is to change:

  execute s:Startup-Sequence		; S: is on hard disk now

to:

  newcli con:a/b/c/d/title from s:Startup-Sequence
  endcli >nil:

This eliminated floppy access entirely after "endcli" was done, a VERY
noticable speedup in startup time.

Of course, in these modern times, with a patched up EXECUTE command,
all you need to do is to reassign T:.  However, there are still some nice
advantages to using NEWCLI instead of EXECUTE.  First, you can open up
the new window any size you want - my favorite is to have it cover all
the screen except for about an inch on the right side for icons.
Second, you can have NEWCLI open up a NEWCON: or ConMAN window -
Ta Da!  After finishing the startup, your system is set up and ready
to go, with a NEWCON: open and ready, just the size you need.

Still only 2 things wrong with my startup sequence (sigh) - first,
binddrivers takes way too long (along with the hard disk buzzing)
- second, it is much too annoying to have Gomf2.2 run from startup
since it takes too long.  I have my entire startup finished and
hard disk quiescent, but Gomf still has that stupid startup window
for another 5 seconds....  Anyone know a way to start it up without
the message window?

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A hint to 1.3 users who are reformatting their hard disks under 1.3 --
If you want to get an autoboot controller, you must leave the first
partition under SFS.  But how big do you make it?  If you make it too
big, you are wasting space that could be under FFS.  If its too small,
you'll have to reformat again when you get the autoboot capability.
Since the 1.3 manual doesn't come out and tell you, I had to figure it out
on my own...

2 tracks is sufficient space (on an ST225) to hold what you need to
get control transferred to your FFS system (including space for
harddisk.device, the FFS handler, some libraries, etc.).  I used
3 tracks myself, just so that there would be a bit of elbow room
for editing files, copying things around, etc.

Darin Johnson (leadsv!laic!darin@pyramid.pyramid.com)
	"I had a choice, so I bought an Amiga"