Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: trouble with rad: Message-ID: Date: 1 Mar 89 05:40:33 GMT References: <3656@utastro.UUCP> Organization: Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 42 In-Reply-To: <3656@utastro.UUCP> sjk@utastro.UUCP (Scot Kleinman) writes: > 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. I believe the following should work (taken from Commodore's own Startup-Sequence files from the 1.3 distribution): assign >NIL: RAD: exists IF NOT WARN ; rad: is present ..... ELSE ; rad: is not present .... ENDIF > 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. Can't be helped. The Format command cannot tell whether or not the device you are formatting is removable or not, so it always asks you to "insert disk into XXXX and hit return" whether it needs to or not. It's especially wierd when formatting hard disks. > Third, I can't seem to get rad: to boot under FFS. Not possible under version 1.3, since FFS is not in ROM. When you boot the machine, it doesn't have access to the FFS handler until it loads it in from somewhere. If RAD: is FFS, it cannot be read at boot time. -- Michael Portuesi / Information Technology Center / Carnegie Mellon University INET: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu / BITNET: mp1u+@andrew UUCP: ...harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ "You just don't get off a spaceship and run." --Avon