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Re: Non-Amiga geeks make a boo boo
« on: March 27, 2007, 10:27:40 PM »
For future ref...


DF0: (ZERO) means Drive Floppy Zero (you can have more than one and Zero is internal/primary)

DH0:  Have a guess!!


No, I dont know why they named it arse about face for either.


Oh... good news...

There's NO registry on an amiga.    Just drag the bugger back.
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Re: Non-Amiga geeks make a boo boo
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2007, 10:41:11 PM »
Amigans consider DH0: ( HD0: on newer machines) as ..

"The Engine Room", So we dont generally stick stuff in there unless its main purpose is smooth running or improvements to the O/s.

Look in one of your working machines Dh0:

open the drives icon.. slesct Show-All files from the menu at the top of the screen. Or use Dos

You will see... (Amongst others)

C:  C is a directory NOT a drive. it stands for Commands. Have a guess what lives in there !!

Libs is short for Libraries - See above !!

Devs is Devices (Drives etc)

S .. Now this one is where your auto exec lives. Its called Startup-Sequence. guess what that does !!

hehe

Custom User startups go into S: as well.  They are called.... Wait for it....

User-Startup. this is basically a kind of registry. there are pointers to where your programs are installed or alias's.
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Re: Non-Amiga geeks make a boo boo
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2007, 10:59:01 PM »
Some screengrabs in Dh0:





and the User-Startup i was telling you about




As you can see... It basically tells the Os where user installed programs live.

Yours will , of cours, be different
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Re: Non-Amiga geeks make a boo boo
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2007, 03:08:19 PM »
And still rocking !!

:-)
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Re: Non-Amiga geeks make a boo boo
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2007, 05:55:10 PM »
I would hazard a guess She's completely Puggled now !!

Lets form a plan of attackj for her...

List of importance.


1:  Does it BOOT into a graphical user interface ? ( A desktop appears)

YES or No ?
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