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- From: darchyld@harold.eastky.com (Ronald J. Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Amiga novice needs help...
- Date: Sat, 24 Feb 96 11:43:56 GMT
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- Well, I just purchased a used A1200 from CopperHead Tech., and I have a
- few questions...(I wasn't sure about where to post this, so if this is
- the wrong place I apologize) Anyways, I installed a Seagate 200 meg 2.5
- inch IDE drive in it and used the Install disk...I divided the drive up
- into 4 partitions-then formatted them-everything went fine until the 4th
- partition. It formatted a little over 756f the way through then gave me
- the "could not find HD3: device" error message...I tried twice more but
- only got the same message...I then tried "quick" formatting it-and it
- worked fine then...Do I have a problem here?
-
- Also, I found a little program called ARQ on one of Amiga Formats cover
- disks...(it adds really neat animated requestors) You can get it to run
- by double-clicking on it, which brings up the one-line shell and hitting
- return. It says in the docs that you can run it automatically, but how?
- I tried putting it in the WBStartup drawer-no go. I tried creating a
- user-startup file to run it, but that wouldn't work either...I tried
-
- arq
- run arq
- execute arq
- s:run arq
- s:execute arq
-
- but everytime it does run but with an output window that "hangs" and it
- won't continue on with the rest of the boot process..
-
- And finally, about assigns...I put BattleChess on my HD3: partition. What
- kind of an assign would I have to make to get it to run from there and
- not look to df0: ??
-
- A huge thanks in advance to anyone who can help me! I'm afraid I'm used
- to using Atari TOS version 4.04 and it is pretty easy...I really like
- the Amiga-I'm just gonna have to get used to it-and a little help! :)
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