#: 16288 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
    24-Aug-92  15:30:34
Sb: #16270-Format error
Fm: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
To: BOB LEET 72020,2536 (X)

Bob,

Yes, you should be able to chd away from the ramdisk, then deiniz it until it
goes away (use the DDir util to see how many times you need to do this).

But first, you should take Rammer (and any other drivers) out of your merged
Shellutil applications file!  You absolutely do not want a driver/app mixture
like that, because whenever you iniz the ramdisk you will also be using up tons
of kernel space (which would lead to not being able to format floppies, etc).

Remember: all modules loaded together from a merged file, will stay together.
As you know, this is normally a Good Thing (it keeps OS-9 from allocating a
separate 8K block of memory for each and every tiny module).

But you have to be careful in this case.  As soon as you iniz the ramdisk then
not only will Rammer/R0 be mapped into the limited 64K kernel map, but so will
all the other utilities that were merged with them!

The best thing always is to make a bootfile with all the drivers you intend to
use.  Second best would be to merge all the extra drivers into one file to load
later on.  But never merge drivers in with commands/applications.

Does this make sense?  best - kevin