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From: king@cell.mot.COM (Steven King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Falcon on an IMpact A500 HD.
Keywords: Broken.
Message-ID: <660@canary7.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 90 15:35:58 GMT
References: <2898@d75.UUCP>
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Motorola Inc. - Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL 60004
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In article <2898@d75.UUCP> robin@reed.UUCP (Robin D. Wilson/1000000) writes:
>
>I just got an Impact A500 20M hard disk for Christmas (the new one with the 
>space for 4 meg. of SIMMs).  I tried to put Falcon v1.1 (using the supplied
>HD install program) on the hard disk, but now when I start it up, it doesn't 
>live up to the floppy based version.  Problems I have had:
>
>[descriptions omitted]
>
>[...]  My second guess was that I moved the falcon drawer out of the root
>directory on the HD.  (I put it into my Games dir.)  If this is the problem,
>I guess I'll live with it, but I won't like it.

THIS IS ONLY A GUESS as I don't own Falcon, but I've encountered similar
problems with my hard drive.  Let me guess, the installation software for 
Falcon created the directory (drawer) on the hard disk for you, no?  It 
probably also dropped a line into your Startup-Sequence like:

        assign Falcon: SYS:Falcon

If you later moved the stuff to a new directory, it probably can't find the
support files it needs.  Try changing the assign to point at your new
directory:

        assign Falcon: DH2:Games/Falcon

Hope this works for you!

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