CompuServe Messages

Brian, Basically, Commodore is moving away from the "grab bag" approach of the old mountlist. If you'll look in the "storage" drawer that was installed as part of 2.1, you'll notice a drawer called "DOSDrivers" – these are the replacements for the CBM-standard entries in the old mountlist. Each of these files is a separate "mountlist" entry (there are some minor differences, but the syntax is basically identical), and the 2.1 version of "mount" knows how do deal with these files. To mount the device, just double click on the icon. If you want the device to be mounted automatically during system startup, just move the icon from the "storage/dosdrivers" drawer to the "devs:dosdrivers" drawer – all of the files in devs:dosdrivers are mounted by the standard startup sequence during boot. As Chris pointed out, your old mountlist is saved by the 2.1 installation. You can restore it and continue to use the "mount" command as you always have, or you can take your non-CBM entries and create similar mini-mountlists like the CBM-standard ones and move to the "new way of doing things". Personally, I think the change they've made is a "good thing", although it is a bit confusing to those of us who have already figured out the old complicated way. Hope this helps…. – BobR