well, here's a little story. I seriously doubt that anybody here is going to beleive me, but it happened and i have to tell somebody because it's too weird to contain.Ok, this morning when i tried to run os 9.1 on a ram disk on my 8600. It worked and was VERY fast. Everything was cool, so i went back to osx since that's my main os. This evening i tried booting off a ram disk on my friend beige g3 and b&w g4 and it didn't work with either. When i got home i decided to boot back into os9 so i could watch a dvd and you wouldn't beleive what happened! IT BOOTED OFF THE RAM DISK!!! YES THIS IS AFTER 12 HOURS IN OSX, THEN BACK TO OS9! The part that is the most f-uped is that not only do i NOT have a choice to save the ram disk in the memory control panel like my friend's beige g3 and B&w, but i had no other little apps to retain that info!! So AFAIK, the data on the ram disk should have fizzled when i booted into osx, correct? It's a fresh install of os9, i just did it last night. my head is really spinning trying to figure out what the heck is going on.
BTW, ASP said the active system folder was on RAM disk and i tried to throw away the system folder (on ram disk) and it wouldn't let me because the system was in use. Virtual memory was turned off...
here's my system:
8600
PL g3/400
832 meg ram
ata card
3 hdds
other stuff...
There were a few other things that shouldn't have happened like i choose a different drive's os9 install that also had osx and instead of booting into 9 it went to x, but it shouldn't because i i used the startup disk CP instead of xpostfacto!
i'm so confused...
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Edited by - thelip on 24 Sep 2002 22:24:03
MY HEAD HURTS!!!
Posted - 24 Sep 2002 : 22:19:36
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