Hey please tell me you are joking lol because I was going to partition it exactly like my A1200 and A600 but using one less partition ,so it would be
350mb for workbench
350mb for work
and what evers left over Games/music lol and you are going to tell me I cant do that lol
Do you use directory utilities like Dopus, DirWork, Ordering, etc? Keeping the same hard drive partitioning conventions across multiple Amigas may allow you to NOT have to maintain unique Dopus config files for each machine. This tactic helps prevent varied startup-sequences, too.
Some other thoughts:
If you are tempted to try some system enhancements (BetterWB, icon schemes, etc), you may find it useful to make several 100MB partitions as alternate Workbench boot partitions. If you try a package, but, later decide you don't like it, you can swap the boot priorities and use the alternate partition to boot. This can serve as a safety net for experimentation and a back-up plan, too.
Also, small partitions can be a useful place to send temporary browser files, email files, etc without junking up your application or system partition.
Many install scripts look for a partition named WORK:. Upon finding it, some that are poorly written decide how the installation is to be organized without much user input. If this bother you, don't name any partition WORK. If they can't find WORK:, install scripts then become more interactive with the user.
and another thing has just crossed my mind how do I get some of the larger files in to my Amiga unless the cd player that's fitted will accept a disc made up on my A1200 and I can transfer them that way ,or is that a no no lol ,thanks again for your help ,very best wishes Brian.
CDs certainly work. Also, Zip disks can be useful to move files between Amigas and other platforms. It is easy to find Zip drives that have either SCSI, IDE, and USB interfaces. A PC formatted Zip disk doesn't care which interface it is.
