Re: Windows 3.1 and Stacker, NOT!!

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From: Thomas Abdallah
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 22:17

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Two items of note here:

	(1)	Make sure that you are NOT trying to setup your swapfile
		on the Stacker partition.  Windows 3.1 needs direct access
		to your hard drive for most effective use of swapspace.

	(2)	Do NOT run FASTDISK !  This is perhaps the most persnicketty
		piece of software I have ever run into. (FASTDISK that is)

It has been my experience that the DOS 5.0/Stacker 2.0/Win 3.x combination
works best given the following configuration:

	o	Stack ~80% of your hard disk.
	o	Swap C: and D: so the stacked partition appears to be C:
	o	Install Win 3.x permanent swapfile on logical D: (physical C:)
	o	Run SmartDrv as per default setup.

I have yet to have any problems with this sort of configuration.  Of course I
have been accused of constantly trying to optimize my system....


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| Thomas-Sharif Abdallah                                                      |
| sharif@lamar.colostate.edu                                                  |
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