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From: sjk@utastro.UUCP (Scot Kleinman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: trouble with rad:
Message-ID: <3656@utastro.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 89 23:26:03 GMT
Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX
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Fellow netters:

I finally spent the time and got 1.3 up and running on my 1000. I
like the idea of the rad: device, but I am having some problems
with it.  In my startup-sequence, I put a routine which will mount
rad: and stick my most-used c commands there. Since rad: will
survive re-boot, I put a line like 
	if not exists rad:   [blah blah blah].
This works fine once rad: has already been mounted and formatted,
but the very first time I boot, a requestor appears asking me to
input rad in any drive.  When  I hit cancel, the requestor goes
away and everything continues along fine.  But, this is a nuisance,
can it be avoided?
Second, when  I format the drive, Ami asks me to insert a disk into
rad: and hit return.  So, I hit return and all is well, but this is
another annoyance and makes me hang around while the thing is
booting.
Third, I can't seem to get rad: to boot under FFS.  I have tried
adding a mountlist entry saying
	DosType = FFS
and one saying
	Dos Type = 0x444f5301
as Amiga World and the Amiga Dos manual recommend (respectively),
but still have had no luck.  What is the proper way to do this? I
believe I got it to work once, but when I formatted it with 
	format drive rad: name "RAD" noicons FFS,
it came back saying not a DOS disk. What's the scoop here?
Last, I am putting these commands in rad: and not making them
resident, because when I do C progamming, I tend to visit the guru
alot and would, this way, save reboot time.  Do you agree with this
strategy?

Thanks alot!!!!
scot
sjk@astro.as.utexas.edu
	

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