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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

484.0. "Bootable copy of workbench?" by TARKIN::BERKSON () Fri May 01 1987 14:13

    What else besides logically copying all the files from my workbench
    disk to a blank disk needs to be done to make the Amiga recognize
    the new disk as bootable? Thanks.
    
      mitch
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484.1INSTALLECADJR::BOSCHFri May 01 1987 14:268
    If you use disk copy to copy work bench, you don't have to do anything
    else.  However, if you format a disk, and then copy each of the
    files over, you have to INSTALL the disk (by using the INSTALL command)
    
    This makes the disk bootable.
    
    derek
    
484.2COOKIE::WECKERDave (Cum Grano Salis) WeckerFri May 01 1987 18:417
re:	.1

FYI:	As of AmigaDOS 1.2, FORMAT automatically does an INSTALL for you.


dave

484.3format automatically installs?AITG::TENNYDave Tenny | Vax Lisp developmentFri May 01 1987 19:495
re .2
Are you sure? My 1.2 Gamma version doesn't automatically
install a formatted disk.

dave
484.4don't think format installsTARKIN::BERKSONFri May 01 1987 20:164
    re .2: I formatted the disk before copying to it and it isn't bootable.
    I have WB 1.2
    
       mitch
484.5ANGORA::SMCAFEESteve McAfeeFri May 01 1987 20:259
    
    I remember reading in the Enhancer docs that there is an option
    on the DOS format command and I think the option was settable via
    the INFO command on the ICON (under TOOL type).  Maybe dave has
    his set to always INSTALL.
    
    just a thought,
    
    steve mcafee
484.6COOKIE::WECKERDave (Cum Grano Salis) WeckerFri May 01 1987 21:525
re:	.*

I also ALWAYS do it from the CLI (no puns please :-) .. I think that is why
I get the INSTALL as a default.

484.7PLDVAX::SMCAFEESteve McAfeeSat May 02 1987 02:149
    
    re: .5  Just thought I'd correct myself before someone else does...
    
    There does not seem to be any mention in the 1.2 docs of the format
    command doing an install.   I don't know where I got the impression
    that there was...
                     
    steve mcafee