CD ROMs, graphics accellerators, memory management & AUX

[Alexis Rosen]

In article <8663 at uswat.UUCP> russell at uswat.uswest.com (Russell Greenlee) writes:
>1. Several months ago someone in this group suggested the idea of
>running AUX partially from the CD ROM and partially from disk, with
>the goal of minimizing the amount of disk spaced used for AUX. Can
>this be done? Has anyone tried it?

No problem. The CD-ROM is mountable as a standard file system, so anything not
needed to boot (before the ROM gets mounted) can live on it. In particular,
man pages, games, libraries, etc. Just mount it, and make whatever links are
appropriate.

Don't forget, this sucker is s-l-o-w.

Alexis Rosen
A/UX victim
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alexis at panix.uucp