Stupid Amiga Tricks...

[nicholas]

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MOUNT RAD:
COPY SYS: RAD: ALL QUIET
ASSIGN SYS: RAD:


If you create an LZX archive of your sys: partition, you can change the second line to unpack the archive to RAD: as it's a darn site quicker than copying the whole filesystem contents.

You can have multiple OS "personalities" this way and create a menu that runs from S:s-s on cold boot to choose which one you want.

[nicholas]

Hmmm... Good tip. I'll have to give that a try one of these days. When I first tried it, 1.3 (I believe) was first out so I don't think LZX was available back then. Could be wrong though...

Any archiver will do, LhA, ZIP etc.....

A certain moderator here does the same trick but uses the BPPC CPU to run a PPC native executable of LZX to unpack the archive of the OS a bazillion times faster.