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I installed the 2 each 250 GB IDE Drives in the system to see if there was a difference. There is a big difference in the SWAP FILE SIZE, 16 MB vs. 64 MB.

Ahh.. now that's significant.

I did at one time try to create a fancy experimental bigdisk builder, which diverged radically from the standard empeg smalldisk layout, with more swap and the like.

But the built-in bootloader code (initrd image) keeps trying to enforce the original layout at every power-on, making that attempt rather risky. So I abandoned the approach.

You just might have that version of the builder still kicking around there. I think it could cause issues, if one is not careful about ensuring that a player always has the correct hijack etc.. installed at power-on. But then, you do seem rather meticulous about these things! smile

I no longer know which builder is which, having not run a builder for years now. But the experimental builder that used a modified partition layout (larger swap) should probably be scrapped completely.

Cheers