From: jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: a3000 help (kids stuf
Date: 24 Jan 93 17:03:38 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA

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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