Re: pcmcia card and B drive

Joel B Couch (jbciii@world.std.com)
Sat, 28 Jan 95 06:54 PST

On Fri, 27 Jan 1995, Domingo Chang wrote:

> Just bought a zoomer and already want more space, am thinking of buying a 1 meg
> pcmcia card but am confused. Do I need to transfer out all the stuff in the B
> drive, install the pcmcia as B and then transfer back all the data to the
> pcmcia?
> or does the pcmcia card become...say....D: drive?

The pcmcia card should be the C: drive.
This is the default setup. A: is the
internal ROM which can also be referred
to as SYS:. B: is the RAM disk. When the
system starts up it looks to see if the
autoexec.bat and config.sys are on B:. If
it doesn't find them it uses the versions
that are built into A:.

If you have big documents saved that need
to be located in the directory path
Geoworks\Document, the applications that
need them will be able to find them whether they
are located in B:\Geoworks\Document or
C:\Geoworks\Document. This is one of the
beauties of GEOS. If you have this directory
structure on C: with the same names as one
on B:, then when you look into those directories
on B: using the file manager you will see all
of the files that are actually located on C:,
but their filenames will be underlined.

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jbciii@world.std.com Joel Bostwick Couch III