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From:Kevin Twyman
Date:8 Jun 2001 at 12:03:32
Subject:Re: CD drawers

Hello Steve,

On 07-Jun-01, you wrote:

> It could have been worse, I suppose. The WB3.1 install destroyed
> most of my system. I was up 'til 4:00 this morning trying to put
> things right, and have only decided that I've gotten things stable
> and back to normal at 6:00 tonight. The joys of installing a new OS
> on top of a heavily customised system, I suppose.

I avoided all that by installing onto a new partition. Like you, I
had/have a heavily patched system, so having installed a fresh OS
seperately, I could then copy over my custom libs for CyberStormPPC
etc. Once that was done, I altered the partitions boot priority and
tried it out.

It took a few tries before I had it stable, but once there I backed up
my original WB partition, and swapped the contents with the new one.
The reason for this is that I only wanted libraries etc that I used on
HD, I didn't just copy them all over to the new installation. Every
now and then I find a library missing, and copy it from the older
partition (I could just keep it on CD I suppose)

This sounds like a lot of work, until someone relates a horror story
like yours, then it suddenly doesn't seem to much bother ;-)

Regards,



Kevin - Est. 1949 http://www.theboyz.freeserve.co.uk
A man with an Amiga A4000T CyberStormPPC 604e/233

Volume 'HardDisk' is full. Bugger.

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