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["Alejandro Lieber" <dos AT lieber.com.ar>]

On 28 Dec 06 at 11:38, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:


> Greg Mayman wrote:
> The loop version does not overload easily.  It provides
> 20mb of space (which is much more than the ramdisk version
> gives you).  I am surprise that you expect to install
> package after package after package and never run out of
> room.  
> 
> > why the version in its own partition is so much better.
> 
> I'm not sure that a partition is "so much better".
> For one thing, it depends on how big you make the 
> partition (obviously a 15mb partition provides less 
> space than the 20mb loop file).

I have lost BL3 several times running in a partition.
Never in a loop. 
That's why I continue running it in a loop.

As my loop is only 10Mby, I can backup it from DOS with PKZIP to 
only 3 diskettes.

 

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