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Title: RAM Icon be STILL!!!
Post by: XDelusion on March 01, 2011, 09:04:43 PM

How do I prevent the RAM icon from being moved about by external devices? It seems that in both WorkBench and MorphOS, when ever I boot up with an external device plugged in, that it wants to be king of the mountain and shifts the RAM icon to the bottom or the right.

How do I prevent this?

Title: Re: RAM Icon be STILL!!!
Post by: number6 on March 01, 2011, 09:16:28 PM

Quote from: XDelusion;618758

How do I prevent the RAM icon from being moved about by external devices? It seems that in both WorkBench and MorphOS, when ever I boot up with an external device plugged in, that it wants to be king of the mountain and shifts the RAM icon to the bottom or the right.

How do I prevent this?

Hmm...lots of choice. Not sure this will work on 3.x, but worth a shot.
(1)Snapshot
(2)copy the RAM:disk.info file to ENVARC:Sys/def_ramdisk.info

#6

Title: Re: RAM Icon be STILL!!!
Post by: TheGoose on March 01, 2011, 09:20:14 PM

Quote from: number6;618765

Hmm...lots of choice. Not sure this will work on 3.x, but worth a shot.
(1)Snapshot
(2)copy the RAM:disk.info file to ENVARC:Sys/def_ramdisk.info

#6

Good Idea! Simple. Little bastard's gonna listen to us yet!

Title: Re: RAM Icon be STILL!!!
Post by: rvo_nl on March 01, 2011, 09:33:17 PM

You can snapshot your RAM icon as instructed above. I have one more tip: mount your CD-Rom drivers 'manually' (from Storage: ) AFTER c:loadwb. this way they dont mess up your static icons.

Title: Re: RAM Icon be STILL!!!
Post by: TheGoose on March 01, 2011, 09:36:47 PM

Quote from: rvo_nl;618778

You can snapshot your RAM icon as instructed above. I have one more tip: mount your CD-Rom drivers 'manually' (from Storage: ) AFTER c:loadwb. this way they dont mess up your static icons.

Oh yeah, don't do devs: dosdriver folder, too early. You could also throw your CDX: DOS driver into WB-Startup too... think that would have the same effect...

Title: Re: RAM Icon be STILL!!!
Post by: T3000 on March 01, 2011, 10:43:05 PM

Quote from: XDelusion;618758

...How do I prevent this?

Migrate to MSWindows and do away with that RAM icon forever!



heh  sorry. couldn't resist.

Title: Re: RAM Icon be STILL!!!
Post by: XDelusion on March 01, 2011, 10:45:24 PM

And slit my wrists while I'm at it.

Actually, I'm still trying to figure out how to add a RAM drive to Windows. I can pull it off in DOS, but not Windows.

Title: Re: RAM Icon be STILL!!!
Post by: XDelusion on March 03, 2011, 05:02:39 AM

Well the first suggestion does not stop the RAM icon from being tossed around. I don't have a CD-ROM on my real Amigas, but I'll mess with the devs and see about loading my PCMCIA card at a later time.

Where would you suggest putting this in the Startup-Sequence in this case?

Title: Re: RAM Icon be STILL!!!
Post by: Bamiga2002 on March 03, 2011, 05:34:28 AM

Browse to SYS:Prefs/ENV-archive/sys and move def_CD0 to desired position --> snapshot --> reboot
how's that?

Title: Re: RAM Icon be STILL!!!
Post by: zipper on March 03, 2011, 06:20:11 AM

I think I had a little script that copied my Ram.info to Ram:disk. info in my user-startup when using OS 3.1.
Or Aminet:
http://main.aminet.net/pub/aminet/util/misc/snapvol.lha

Title: Re: RAM Icon be STILL!!!
Post by: rvo_nl on March 03, 2011, 08:50:02 AM

can only tell you what works for me:

copy hd1:s/disk.info ram:disk.info

before the assign: stuff in startup-sequence, and

c:mount >NIL: hd1:storage/dosdrivers/cd0

after the c:loadwb command

should work fine..

Title: Re: RAM Icon be STILL!!!
Post by: XDelusion on October 17, 2011, 12:16:28 AM

Behold RAMSNAP!

http://aminet.net/package/util/wb/RamSnap

Title: Re: RAM Icon be STILL!!!
Post by: lionstorm on October 17, 2011, 04:50:17 PM

Quote from: number6;618765

Hmm...lots of choice. Not sure this will work on 3.x, but worth a shot.
(1)Snapshot
(2)copy the RAM:disk.info file to ENVARC:Sys/def_ramdisk.info

#6

and then you need to add the following to your user-startup :

Quote

makelink RAM:disk.info ENVARC:SYS/def_RAM.info soft