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Subject: Re: using the internal drive
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Date: Mon, 4-Aug-86 16:38:09 EDT
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> When you boot up the Amiga and go into CLI, how can you use another disk in
> df0: ?  I have already tried copying the /c directory on the Workbench disk
> to the ram disk. I thought that'd do it, but if I want to copy a file from
> some other disk to the one that's in df1:, I can't get it to let me put a
> different disk in df0:. Am I missing something really obvious? A friend of
> mine has the same problem, so I'm not the only one with this problem. I've
> spent most of my time getting to the good stuff on the Amiga that I've
> almost overlooked the trivial system stuff. Thanks in advance.
> 
> 	-Ken Baer. (The Eternal CS Student)

There are a couple of ways to do this. 

a) Leaving the workbench disk in df0:, at the CLI prompt type :
	1>copy source:file df1:
assuming you replace "source:" with the name of the disk that has the
file you want, AmigaDos will put up a requestor that you put "source:"
in any drive. Remove the workbench disk and put in the source disk and
the copy will complete. Note that on single drive systems the way to
do this is with command '1>copy source:file to dest:' you will be prompted
to insert the disks when they are required.
b) You can alternately type 
	1>Copy ?
	FROM/K,TO/A :	<-AmigaDos "help prompt" I don't know the exact words
 Remove the workbench disk, insert your source disk and then answer the prompt
with 'df0:file to df1:' and let the copy complete.

Either way works. What I like most is that the named volume approach makes
single floppy systems practical. 
--Chuck