| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 21 Mar 2001 at 12:04:49 |
| Subject: | Re: Boing Bag 2 - problems solved . . . . . Almost!! |
hi,
> Thank-you also to Alan Buxey, who was no help whatsoever, but who did remind me that none of this would be quite such a problem if I'd backed up my Workbench partition in the first place (and also for reminding me to register the remaining bits of shareware on my system).
..glad that the message sunk in. Could I also advise you to use proper
wrapping on your emails - this one will now 100% likely to come out
screwed as it already looks a mess 8-)
> Note to Alan: The installer even choked on an (almost) fresh install of OS3.5+BB1, the only extras running were the SurfSquirrel install, Fblit and WBcontrol (both included in the BB1 distro) - the MoBo is a 1D1 revision (that I'd had no problems with previously) and the accellerator a Blizzard 1240 W. 16Mb fast RAM. Admittedly not a vanilla A1200 setup, but not wild and whacky by any means.
should be note to H&P 8-)
> I do however have issues with H&P on this. Why did the installer choke on the SurfSquirrel setup, many of these units were sold (more than the Blizzard SCSI module) and it still seems to be in common use. I don't see why I had to move the mount command like I did, since it compromises the security (as in rleiability) of the startup-sequence. I was always told to use the user-startup whenever possible, which is something I try and do (despite having FBlit and WBcontrol on my system).
My guess is that no-one on the H&P beta-test list has or uses a
surfquirrel. in this case they wouldnt have noticed anything wrong...
perhaps you can apply for a beta-test position on their team.
unfortunetaly, a keen as i am to beta test stuff my config is WAY to
common :-(
> BTW. What does BB2 *actually* fix. I haven't noticed any difference since installing it (I had no problems before tho')
its in the docs...mainly very minor things and a lot of things that i dont
use/access anyway. still I stuck it on.
> And lastly, now BB2 is working, all of a sudden CrossDOS appears to be broken - in that I now cannot read any PC formatted 720kb Floppies. Even ones that I *could* read a day before doing the upgrade!!
perhaps a wrong PC0: config has sneaked through...dont forget that A4k's
can read 1.44Mb PC disks in their DF0:'s (well, most can) whilst A1200's
have DD FD0:'s
sys:storage/DOSDrivers/PC0 or devs:dosdrivers/PC0
alan
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