Re: Stacker 4.0 and Zoomer SRAM

barrym (barrym@neosoft.com)
Sun, 3 Sep 1995 11:23:13 -0500 (CDT)

On Tue, 29 Aug 1995 Oxidate@aol.com wrote:

> O.K. I've got a GRID SRAM card. I created penright.bat and copied it to my
> card (using Windows File Manager). I also copied stacker.exe. Then I hit
> the compress button. When it was done, I checked the card with FM and there
> was a stacvol.dsk file there. When I put the card in my zoomer and reset, I
> allows me to view Drive C: I see the GEOWORKS folder. When I try to open
> it, I get the following message:
>
> Please insert disk PCCARD1 (the label I gave my card)
> into drive C
>
>
> Press Left Button to continue.
> Right button to abort
>
> Hep me, Hep me. I saved a few messages from a month or so ago. They talked
> about creating the container file and copying it to the card. I can't find
> any reference to the term 'container' file in the book.
>
> Rusty
>
I believe stacvol.dsk is the container file. Stacker creates a large
file on the host drive and stores everything in it. It is, in effect,
your stacked drive.

It sounds like the problem is that the GEOS is keying things to the cart
they're installed on and now the appearant name of the card has changed.
It sees it as stacvol00 or something like that. It's a feature, not a
bug.

I think it means the installation worked but you have some cleanup to do.

I remember some messages on here earlier about naming the stacker volume
and problems associated with it.

Keep in mind that I'm doing a lot of guessing here. I've used Stacker a
lot on pc's, but I've never used it on my Zoomer.

Barry