Re: win95 installation

[Sven N. Thommesen]

At 11:23 PM 4/23/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I spent a lot of time trying to install on a "neutral" drive in an attempt to
>allow NT and 95 to both access the same code.  My first suggestion is
>to move some of the other software from C:->D: to make room for SWARM
>on C:.  If you have to install on D:, your primary problem is Cygnus.  It
>mounts itself on C: regardless of where it is installed.  You have to do:
>
>umount \
>mount d:/ \
>
>to get it looking at the correct place.  If I remember, to do this you have
>to start Cygnus from the Cygnus directory, not from swarm.exe.
>
>See how far that gets you.  My strong recomendation is that you use C:,
>both Cygnus and emacs really don't like being anywhere else.
>
>Good Luck,
>
>   Doug Donalson

I had the same idea -- to have access to my code from both '95 and NT. But
after all the troubles detailed on this list, I installed the Cygnus stuff
on both C: partitions. Swarm was happy to be installed on D: however, and
is accessible under both '95 and NT :-) I can compile Heatbugs under NT and
run it under '95, and vice versa. [My own apps, however, require a minor
attitude adjustment from 1.0.3 before they'll cooperate ...]

Btw -- the installs under '95 and NT were both very slick and very fast. On
the other hand, I've had all sorts of hassle getting 1.1 with related
libraries to work under RedHat 4.2. You guys ain't makin' it easy to be a
Linux freak!

OTOH -- compiling Swarm itself took about 6 minutes under both '95 and NT
on a dual PII-266 (even though NT was using both processors ?!?), while it
took a little over 1 minute under Linux (using only one processor). Heh!

Cheers,
Sven


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