Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!nikhefh!gert
From: gert@nikhefh.hep.nl (Gert Poletiek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: problems with hinstall-->>  USE HDB
Message-ID: <488@nikhefh.hep.nl>
Date: 18 Jul 88 20:41:42 GMT
References: <561@philmds.UUCP>
Reply-To: gert@nikhefh.hep.nl (Gert Poletiek)
Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
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In article <561@philmds.UUCP> leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
>I'm having trouble running the hard disk driver installation program,
>hinstall.prg. After selecting Install from the menu-bar and clicking
>on Yes (Do you really want to etc...) the program bombs (bus error).
>I've retried after disabling all AUTO *.prg's (except for AHDI.PRG)
>and all accessories, but the problem remains (so it shouldn't be
>my fault 8-).  ARC.TTP says that all files in the archive are ok.


I use hdb version 2.3 with no problems at all. In my opinion this is a better
program than atari's hinstall because you can make any partition on the disk
bootable, not just the C partition. Like hinstall you can disable harddisk
booting by holding down shift control and alternate. Furthermore hdb can be
deinstalled quite easily. The only required is a copy of ahdi.prg in the root
directory of the disk you wish to boot from (hbd installs a 'read only' disk
driver on the bootsector of the boot volume which reads the "real" ahdi ).

If you want I can upload it to the net; I've thrown away the docs, since
installing is dead easy.


Gert Poletiek

NIKHEF-H, Dutch National Institute for Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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