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6. When the installation is complete, your FlashDisk should be
available for use as a compressed or “stacked” drive.
SINSTALL Command Line Switch Descriptions
If the drive letter on which your CONFIG.SYS file resides is
different than C, use the SINSTALL command line switches
as follows:
SINSTALL [/B] [/S] [/D]
The /B switch sets the boot drive letter used by the SINSTALL
program. For example, /Bd: will cause SINSTALL to look for the
CONFIG.SYS file on the D drive.
The /S switch allows you to change the path to which the Stacker
device driver will be installed. For example, SINSTALL /
SD:\MYSTACK will cause SINSTALL to copy the Stacker device
driver to D:\MYSTACK versus the default of C:\STACKER.
Note: If /B is specified and /S is not, the drive letter used
for the Stacker installation will be that specified with the
/B switch.
The /D switch allows you to specify the drive letter for the
FlashDisk. For example, /DE: will inform the SINSTALL
program that the FlashDisk to be compressed has logical drive
letter E assigned. If the FlashDisk can be accessed from more
than one PCMCIA slot on your computer, you can inform
SINSTALL to provide more than one drive letter. If multiple
drives are to be utilized as drives with Stacker loaded, an
optional single digit number can be specified immediately after
the /D drive letter. For example: If drives A and B are used with
Stacker, the syntax would be /DA:2. Note that the two drive
letters need to be contiguous.
How Much Compression Can You Get?
Stacker typically doubles the storage capacity of your FlashDisk.
However, the compression ratio depends on the “compressibility”
of the data. For example, spreadsheet files and text files compress
very well, but binary files (such as .EXE, .COM, and .ZIP files)
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