24 May
2000
24 May
'00
8:56 p.m.
I've never encountered that version 6.3. I've got a few sets of install
disketted for DOS 6.21, which was made up for DELL, specifically without the
compression support in it or among its utilities. I, havning spent much
time testing the more popular compression schemes, am an avid user of
compression. I've found it to be no more problem-prone than plain-vanilla
DOS, yet the maintenance tools (scandisk) seem to work better on compressed
volumes than on uncompressed. Compression does seem to enhance disk
subsystem preformance. If you have a solid backup regimen, you should never
have to worry about data loss just because you use compression. I found
that DRVSPACE yielded about a 15% performance increase and had no added risk
of system failure. I also found that the risk of data loss was actually
lower (based on my substantial but still relatively small data sample) than
that with uncompressed data, probably due to the more effective error
management tools.
the long and short is that I like it, use it, and haven't yet come to cuss
it. That's why I've not used the DOS 6.21.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch(a)30below.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: Bootable Floppy from CD?
the
Rumor has it that Richard Erlacher may have mentioned
these words:
>I know what you mean. I've made the shift from DOS 6.20 to 6.22 a couple
of
itmes. What,
by the way, is DOS 6.3?
IBM marketed a PC-DOS 6.3 with Stacker and some other stuff, IIRC.
Personally, for the boot stuff, I'd just stick to a boot floppy... boot computer from your PC-DOS disk 1, and if it goes into
a setup routine, hit
<F3> (well, for MS-DOS... not sure if it's different with IBM's stuff) and
when you get to the dos prompt, if you have two floppies, put a floppy in
your B: and do a:
format b: /s (to put the system on.)
If you don't have 2 floppies, issue that command anyway. With a 1 floppy
system, you have a *virtual* B: and the system will automatically ask you
for source and destination disks when it wants you to swap them.
HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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