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- Install(V1.3, 2.x, 3.x in C:)
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- NAME
- Install - Do the magic which makes a disk bootable.
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- SYNOPSIS
- Install Drive NOBOOT CHECK
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- DESCRIPTION
- This command should be used on all formatted floppy
- disks that you might wish to startup the system with.
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- INSTALL adds the minimum amount of information to
- make that disk bootable. If a blank disk is INSTALLed it
- will bring up the AmigaDOS prompt, but that's it. To
- invoke any AmigaDOS commands the entire path to that file
- must be included.
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- If you boot with the INSTALLed disk, it becomes the
- Sys: directory.
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- If you use INSTALL on a non-Amiga formatted disk, or
- one with a custom boot-block, you will probably destroy
- that disk. So, be careful how you use this command.
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- The drive specified may be one of DF0:, DF1:, DF2: or
- DF3:.
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- OPTIONS
- CHECK
- This option checks to see if a disk is bootable, and
- if standard bootblock code is installed on the disk. For
- use in script files, if the disk is bootable and contains
- standard bootblock code, the error code is set to zero,
- otherwise, the error code is set to WARN.
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- NOBOOT
- This option removes any bootblock from a DOS disk,
- and may also be used to make a non-DOS diskette readable
- as a DOS diskette. This can be used to get rid of
- unwanted information (aka Virus's) that may be hanging
- out on your diskette.
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- FFS
- The disk will usually be given the boot block
- associated with that particular file system (OFS- Old
- File System for 1.3 or FFS- Fast File System for
- 2.x/3.x). This will force your system to install an FFS
- disk in Workbenches under 2.1. After and including 2.1
- you are unable to force an FFS disk on an OFS only
- system.
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- SINGLE DISK DRIVE WARNING!!!
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- If you're not careful with your this program you can
- ruin your Workbench disk. Here's how to INSTALL a disk on
- a single drive system.
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- You will not be prompted to enter the disk after you
- type INSTALL. So, this makes using INSTALL on single disk
- systems very dangerous. Normally, your C: directory will
- be assigned to the Sys: disk in df0:. So, if you insert
- the Workbench disk in df0: then type INSTALL ?, you will
- then get a command template that looks like this:
- DRIVE/A. Now, eject your Workbench disk then put in the
- one you wish to install and then type DF0: after the
- template then return. Now, the disk you wanted to install
- will be installed.
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- EXAMPLES
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- 1. To install a boot file on the disk in df2:
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- INSTALL DRIVE df2:
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