Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!cbmvax!andy From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Workbench bug Message-ID: <2141@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 19:39:52 EDT Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2141 Posted: Fri Jul 17 19:39:52 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jul-87 02:35:42 EDT References: <424@inria.UUCP> <3031@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 32 In article <3031@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> spencer@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer) writes: >In article <424@inria.UUCP> rouaix@inria.UUCP (Francois Rouaix) writes: >>I know two reasons for which the workbench may ask for system disk: >> 1) the first time you use the RAM disk, AmigaDOS (or whoever) needs >>the ram handler on system disk >> 2) icons: if you assigned some directories before loading WB, or >There has to be one other. Here is the scenereo(?): > >Boot with your favorite workbench disk. Have a copy of workbench in df1: >Type "loadwb". >You will be requested for the boot disk. > >What is it getting off that disk? What still points to the disk? Make sure that you do a path reset before you type the loadwb. That way, Workbench snapshots the current paths when you do a LoadWB, for use in each CLI that you fire up from Workbench. This involves looking down the path. (The things to reassign are l: s: libs: devs: fonts: sys: c:, and the path) andy finkel -- andy finkel {ihnp4|seismo|allegra}!cbmvax!andy Commodore-Amiga, Inc. "The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it." Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.