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- From: jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: a3000 help (kids stuf
- Message-ID: <C1DBE2.CrL@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 17:03:38 GMT
- References: <1993Jan24.4247.25405@dosgate>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA
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- robert.buonincontro@canrem.com (robert buonincontro) writes:
-
- >is at a very crucial stage. It all hinders on the success of the Amiga
- ^I think you mean "hinges"?
- >1200/4000 systems. It also depends on how many people start purchasing
- >software. 100,000 Amiga 1200 users who purchase software regularly is better
- >then 1,000,000 Amiga 500 users now. It doesn't help alot when messages such
- >as yours pop up using the word pirate in this way.
- >
- >This paragraph is not meant to flame you are anyone else but to educate
- >everyone. I don't understand how people can invest 1000s of dollars into a
- >computer and then deflate the value of the computer by pirating software.
-
- Good point. Another good point: CBM hasn't released 3.0 yet to the rest of us,
- so it's questionable whether pirating 3.0 makes them lose any profits. If he
- pirates 3.0 somehow, as long as he buys it when CBM makes it available, they
- haven't lost anything.
-
- >Go with WB 2.1, it's much better then WB 2.04. It has Cross Dos built in, it's
- >a little faster and easier to use. For example you no longer have to create a
- >mountlist to mount devices. All you have to do is copy the device you wish to
- >mount in the devs directory. It's as simple as that!
-
- >There really isn't any easy way to set the A3000 up so that all partitions are
- >useable at once. You could create 1 partition if you wanted and simply switch
- >the Kickstart file before booting up but this can be a real pain. After all
- >you will have to reassign all the directories to the other version of OS. It
- >can become quite messy.
-
- There is certainly a better way than *that*! What you need to do is to set ups
- only those files required to boot on two partitions, one for booting 2.x and
- one for 1.3. Next, put the rest of those files on a third partition (thereby
- making them accessible to either 1.3 or 2.x). Then modify your startup-sequence
- and/or user-startup on each boot partition to look for the appropriate files on
- the third partition. If some files must be on each, you can use "assign add"
- under 2.x or a PD utility called "addassign" under 1.3, each of which allows
- an assignment to be made to more than one directory, so that FONTS: might look
- first to sys:fonts, but also to shared:fonts.
-
- >My not just decrease the size of the WB 1.3 partition if you aren't going to
- >be using it. Or even better, get rid of it entirely!
-
- Getting rid of it is an excellent idea, really - there isn't much recently
- developed software that doesn't run under 2.x and above. People have finally
- learned to work within the system, improving not only the look and feel of
- their software, but its longevity as well!
-
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- Jake Rose :: Every cloud has a silver lining.
- jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu:: Every silver lining has a cloud inside it.
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