How do I create startup options for wb?

[sir_bacharach]

Hi all,

I have a problem with my setup. I have a pcmcia wifi card. And when the amiga boots it loads amitcp 3 with prism2v2 wifi drivers, then it mounts my pc share using smbfs command.

The problem is that whdload doesn't seem to work with all games with this set of drivers and software present.

I know there is a whdload-startup which can be used to run shell commands to disable drivers etc, but my amiga seems to just crash when I try this.

I think its because I'm not disabling smbfs before I disable amitcp.

Firstly does anyone know how to dismount smbfs?

& secondly does anyone know where I can find a tutorial on how to create menus that will load alternate start up sequences at boot?

I've had a good google and found nothing.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

I used to use a utility that you'd put as the first line in your startup-sequence that would put up a menu on the screen and let you select which startup you wanted to run, sort of like a startup-sequence.1,  startup-sequence.2, etc. Think I downloaded it off Aminet back in the 90s, let me know if you strike out and I can pull out an old disk to get the name.

[fishy_fiz]

Im going by memory, so I might be a bit off the mark here, but is there a "user-shutdown" scripts in either sys:s or the s directory of you tcp/ip stack?

If you've not tried it already through a gui or other means maybe try executing that?


edit: sorry, ignore that. I didnt read your post properly 1st. Sorry  

[Tenacious]

I'll take a stab.

The Startup-sequence is simple a script and can be seen executing in the first cli.  It calls another script: the User-startup (where your customizations should be).  I've never done this, but, I don't see why you can't create a branch in the User-startup that asks if you intend to game or surf.  Then, you a write a Game-startup script and a Surf-startup script, each initializing the desired environment, and save them to S:.  Depending on user input when booting, the corresponding sub script would be executed.  The user-startup could wait for 20 seconds for user input and then default to one or the other (depending on what you do most).

It would be a simple matter to reboot anytime you want to change from 1 environment to the other.

Do you have the AmigaDOS manual that came with your Amiga?

[fishy_fiz]

There's a tool whose name I forget that lets you enable and disable different different user defined options by holding down various (again, user defined) keys at start-up.
Alernatively WBStart+ adds a bit of flexibility to startup options.
Both can be found on aminet (I'll update the thread when I remember the name of the 1st program I mentioned).

[smf]

Hi all,



Firstly does anyone know how to dismount smbfs?

Use the break command to dismount smbfs. The command to break it can be something like "break NAME "smbfs '//myserver/myshare'"  or you can break it by using the process id. Use the "status" command to find the process  name and/or the id.