Chapter 2
Getting Started
This
chapter
covers booting your Amiga
system
for
the
first time,
and
using
the
keylock, keyboard,
and
keyboard mouse equivalents.
Booting
What
you see
when
you
turn
on
the
Amiga depends on
whether
you
have
a
hard
disk based system
or
a floppy disk
based
system
with
no
hard
disk.
Floppy-Based Systems
When a floppy-based Amiga system is
turned
on,
it
looks for a
bootable floppy disk
in
the
internal
floppy drive,
DFO:.
This disk
can
be a copy
of
your Workbench disk or a bootable application disk.
If
a bootable disk is not found,
the
Amiga
prompts
you by displaying
a disk being
inserted
into a drive.
When
a bootable floppy disk
is
inserted
into
DFO:,
the
screen goes
blank
while
the
Amiga loads
the
system information
it
needs from
the
disk.
Booting from floppy
takes
about two minutes. When
the
process is
complete, you should see a screen similar to
that
illustrated
in
Figure 2-1.
Hard Disk-Based Systems
The Amiga
can
boot directly from a
hard
disk
if
your system
has
one. You
do
not need to
insert
any
floppy disks.
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