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Post #22 by Mk.558
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateWed, 27 Jun 2012 - 14:02
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/7-5-3-network-access-disks.25693/
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I'm beginning to believe I'm going to have to find room for the Memory/Startup Disk CDEVs.

If someone has 16MB of RAM, that's more than enough to load a RAM disk and have some working space. Freeing up the FDD slot is a real priority, since System 6 was the last OS to work fine off a single floppy slot (sort of). System 7.0 is so bad it's not even funny...like 7-8 times swapping just to mount the 2nd disk on the desktop.

Last time I had some time to work on this, ResCompare crashed before it got to the gpch resources. I'll have to move down the line manually to figure what resource is causing the hiccup. Memory? Nah fixed that by increasing its allocation from 2048K which was the Preferred size it suggested to 8192K. If that's not enough the iBook has 640MB RAM in it, 40 of which is used, so figure 590 to spare :)

Kinda funny because when I dumped all the resources in one go the first time, which by my ignorance just made 7.5.3 System into a 7.5 whole and through, it didn't crash at all. tsk

You won't be able to fit an AppleShare over IP client in. In fact, I'm not aware of such an application. I could also work on a bootable CD image which is meant to be dumped into a RAM disk. Should be able to make such a thing fiddling with this thing and cram it all into ...say, 8MB?

Anything New-World (aka G3) is going to be on your own...