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Install(V1.3, 2.x, 3.x in C:)
NAME
Install - Do the magic which makes a disk bootable.
SYNOPSIS
Install Drive NOBOOT CHECK
DESCRIPTION
This command should be used on all formatted floppy
disks that you might wish to startup the system with.
INSTALL adds the minimum amount of information to
make that disk bootable. If a blank disk is INSTALLed it
will bring up the AmigaDOS prompt, but that's it. To
invoke any AmigaDOS commands the entire path to that file
must be included.
If you boot with the INSTALLed disk, it becomes the
Sys: directory.
If you use INSTALL on a non-Amiga formatted disk, or
one with a custom boot-block, you will probably destroy
that disk. So, be careful how you use this command.
The drive specified may be one of DF0:, DF1:, DF2: or
DF3:.
OPTIONS
CHECK
This option checks to see if a disk is bootable, and
if standard bootblock code is installed on the disk. For
use in script files, if the disk is bootable and contains
standard bootblock code, the error code is set to zero,
otherwise, the error code is set to WARN.
NOBOOT
This option removes any bootblock from a DOS disk,
and may also be used to make a non-DOS diskette readable
as a DOS diskette. This can be used to get rid of
unwanted information (aka Virus's) that may be hanging
out on your diskette.
FFS
The disk will usually be given the boot block
associated with that particular file system (OFS- Old
File System for 1.3 or FFS- Fast File System for
2.x/3.x). This will force your system to install an FFS
disk in Workbenches under 2.1. After and including 2.1
you are unable to force an FFS disk on an OFS only
system.
SINGLE DISK DRIVE WARNING!!!
If you're not careful with your this program you can
ruin your Workbench disk. Here's how to INSTALL a disk on
a single drive system.
You will not be prompted to enter the disk after you
type INSTALL. So, this makes using INSTALL on single disk
systems very dangerous. Normally, your C: directory will
be assigned to the Sys: disk in df0:. So, if you insert
the Workbench disk in df0: then type INSTALL ?, you will
then get a command template that looks like this:
DRIVE/A. Now, eject your Workbench disk then put in the
one you wish to install and then type DF0: after the
template then return. Now, the disk you wanted to install
will be installed.
EXAMPLES
1. To install a boot file on the disk in df2:
INSTALL DRIVE df2: