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Title: can anyone help
Post by: swoslover on August 14, 2007, 10:50:56 PM
i am trying to install a program and it keeps asking me to insert volume df2 in any drive, I have no idea what this means.

Thanks

Craig
Title: Re: can anyone help
Post by: murple on August 14, 2007, 10:52:25 PM
What program are you trying to install?

Where did you get it?

How are you trying to install it?

Is it on a floppy disk, CD, or something else?

What commands are you using to try to install it?
Title: Re: can anyone help
Post by: Matt_H on August 14, 2007, 10:59:03 PM
It sounds like a badly-written install script looking for files on a device (DF2:) rather than a volume (MyProgramDisk2:)

Use the shell to assign DF2: to the source of what you're installing.

I'll echo, what program is it?
Title: Re: can anyone help
Post by: swoslover on August 14, 2007, 11:01:40 PM
pagestream 3.2 im using winuae
Title: Re: can anyone help
Post by: murple on August 14, 2007, 11:12:08 PM
Oh, in an emulator. Well I'd say try what the other dude said and make sure the install script isnt badly written and try assigning DF2 to it. But since youre emulating, you also should check at all your emulator settings are OK. Or buy a real Amiga ;) If this is a commercial program (PageStream) then that makes me think an emulator setup issue is more likely than a badly written install...
Title: Re: can anyone help
Post by: swoslover on August 15, 2007, 07:18:28 PM
I have an A1200 and a CD32 for the record.

i just dont have the space in my new flat for it and dont really have the money to upgrade it so WINUAE is far more convenient for me just now.

Can someone tell me what DF2 is?
Title: Re: can anyone help
Post by: McVenco on August 15, 2007, 07:31:04 PM
DF2: is (usually) the name for a second external diskdrive. The (main) internal diskdrive is always called DF0: the first external drive (or second internal drive with big-box Amiga's) is called DF1:

I think that either the install script is looking for a disk in drive DF2: , or it's looking for a disk which is called DF2. In WinUAE, you can enable drives DF0: to DF3:. Try putting a disk image in the virtual DF2: drive and see what happens.
Title: Re: can anyone help
Post by: swoslover on August 15, 2007, 10:16:01 PM
I have tried putting the disk into DF2 however it is still having the same problems.

I tried adding a hard drive maybe this has something to do with it.