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techincal advice
« on: August 30, 2008, 09:16:46 AM »
first of all,hi all as im new here.nice to see an active community for the amiga.

i have a couple of issues in setting up my a1200.its got a 6gb hd (3 x 2gb ptn).ide fix express to which said drive is attached along with an ide cdrw which i had to mod in an external case and link with an ide cable.the bit that comes out of the amiga is female so i can remove the drive,its quite cool and a bit cheaper than buying a pcmcia squirrel and scsi drive!.its also got a 4mb (soon to be 8) add on in the trapdoor with a rtc,but no fpu.wouldnt mind an 040 or similar but just cant afford it.
updated 3.1 roms and wb 3.1.i do have 3.5 and 3.9 but my hard drive went into 1gb partitions and i dont know how to set them up after installing 3.5 so i just left 3.1 on.
anyway,here are my two questions which i desperately need a cure to cos its driving me nuts.hope someone can help....

1. how do you alter the boot sequence by altering the script?.i have something that starts on boot up but a file is missing so it wont pass it and just halts.

2.is there anything out there with a gui for a novice,which can convert dms so i can transfer to adf so i can use the software on a floppy.


many thanks

john
 

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Re: techincal advice
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2008, 09:33:52 AM »
hi,and thanks.
but...how do i get to the boot menu?.im a total novice!

john
 

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Re: techincal advice
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2008, 06:36:49 PM »
i tried that,but got no cli?.just 3 button options to adjust boot device and display settings.i need to edit the start up to delete the entry that halts the boot.how can  do this please?.thanks

john
 

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Re: techincal advice
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2008, 06:58:55 PM »
ahh,right.thanks.then how do i edit the start up please?.what do i type?.

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Re: techincal advice
« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2008, 03:46:07 PM »
thanks flashlab,it worked and got my amiga booting properly.

john