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Bridgeboard

    27-Oct-91 18:04:58
Sb: #38289-Bridgeboard
Fm: Gayle Lee Fairless 71571,321
To: Paul Toal 72701,2360
Once you create this special BB file, it is possible to boot the bridgeboard (BB) with your system diskette in the A: drive. You should be able now to access the C: drive. I don't remember whether you have to reboot the Amiga. Anyway, you must now use FDISK to prepare the internal MSDOS parameters of your C: drive which is really a special Amiga DOS file whose pathname is already in ABOOT.CTRL. Once you have run FDISK and FORMAT with the /S key to setup the C: drive as a bootable drive according to instructions, you start transfering your files from your system diskettes to the C: drive. One of the lines in your CONFIG.SYS should be DEVICE=C:\JANUS\JDISK.SYS, assuming that you created a subdirectory JANUS in the root directory of your C: drive and copied the JANUS programs to this subdirectory. You put the atime.com and amouse.com programs in your autoexec.bat file. Of course, you also put amouse.drv in your config.sys file, assuming that you plan to use the Amiga mouse with the bridgeboard. If you've gotten a separate mouse and/or card for the bridgeboard, then of course, you would use its driver and program. I'm assuming that you are aware that the autoexec.bat and config.sys files should be in your C: root directory. When you are able to copy files to your C: drives, you need only to reboot the bridgeboard assuming you have already started the Amiga programs PCDISK and/or TIMESERV. Hope this gets you started. Now I have skipped over a bunch of stuff that you should get from your manuals. Sincerely, (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless 'Perfessor Fearless'