Commodore A 2091-40 - Copying Programs to Your Hard Disk

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Using

the

Hard

Disk

43

4.3

Copying

Programs

to

Your

Hard

Disk

In

addition

to

working

with

the

utilities

on

Workbench

and

Extras,

you

will

want

to

transfer

other

software

programs

to

your

hard

disk.

Note

that

many

commercial

software

packages

have

instructions

for

installing

the

software

on

the

hard

disk.

This

section

demonstrates

how

to

copy

a

generic

software

program

to

your

hard

drive.

Since

this

procedure

involves

the

CLI/SHELL

and

some

basic

AmigaDOS

commands,

you

should

refer

to

Chapter

7

of

the

Introduction

manual

if

you

are

not

familiar

with

using

the

CLI.

1.

The

hard

disk

is

large

enough

to

store

dozens

of

floppy

disks

worth

of

information.

To

do

this

efficiently

you

should

organize

the

partition

into

drawers.

The

easiest

way

to

create

a

new

drawer,

and

at

the

same

time

a

new

directory,

is

to

make

a

copy

of

the

Empty

drawer

by

using

Duplicate

from

the

Workbench

menu.

Open

the

hard

disk's

window

by

double-clicking

on

its

icon.

Click

once

on

the

Empty

drawer,

then

select

Duplicate

from

the

Workbench

menu.

A

new

drawer

called

Copy

of

Empty

will

appear

in

the

window,

2.

Rename

Copy

of

Empty

using

the

Workbench

menu's

Rename

item.

For

this

example,

we

are

going

to

call

the

drawer

Drawer.

Select

the

drawer,

choose

Rename

from

the

menu,

and

a

string

gadget

appears,

Delete

the

old

name

with

the

[Del]

key,

and

type

in

the

new

name.

You

can

name

it

anything

you'd

like,

but

you

should

use

a

name

that

reminds

you

of

the

contents.

Also,

if

there

are

spaces

in

the

name

(i.e.,

if

it

is

more

than

one

word),

you

must

put

quotation

marks

around

the

entire

name

when

using

it

in

CLWShell

commands.

3.

Now

that

you

have

a

new

directory,

you can

copy

your

software

disks

to

the

hard

drive.

To

do

this

you

must

open

the

CLI

or

Shell,

We'll

assume

that

the

software

is

on

a

disk

called

DISK1

and

that

you

are

inserting

it

into

the

Amiga's

internal

floppy

drive,

DFO:,

Here

are

some

general

guidelines

for

copying

programs

to

a

hard

disk

partition,

called

DHO:

in

this

example:

A,

Copy

any

files

and

directories

that

are

on

DISK1

but

are

not

already

in

DHO:

to

your

new

directory.

Usually

your

software

will

contain

many

of

the

files

that

are

already

on

DHO:,

such

as

the

Trashcan,

the

System

directory,

etc,

Do

not

copy

these

files

into

your

new

directory.

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