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From:David Cox
Date:21 Mar 2001 at 14:07:27
Subject:Re: Boing Bag 2 - problems solved . . . . . Almost!!

--- In amigactive@y..., Alan Buxey <almb@m...> wrote:
> 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-)
>

Yes, dad! =) I'm using Opera 5.02 on a PC to view this list, so I guess it's the web interface at Yahoo groups that's causing the problem.

> > 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 :-(
>

Hmmm, I'll give it a try . . .

> > 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.
>

Ah. Documentation. Good.

> > 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
>

Yep, been mentioned and something I forgot to check last night - will do today, and that's probably the cause of the problem, erm. . .

> alan

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