HD Installation Tools 1. Software Installation of a Harddisk 1.1 General Information This chapter guides you through the software installation of your harddisk. If you purchased an entire system, your harddisk is already installed. In that case, you may start using your harddisk right away, and this chapter is not of importance to you. 1.2 Starting the Amiga Insert the included disk into your Amigas floppy drive and start up your computer. All files needed for startup are on the disk. 1.3 Starting the Program The installation program ?HDInstTools? is located in the root directory of the disk included. To start the program, open the disk window first, by double-clicking the disk icon with the left button of your mouse. The disk window opens immediately, displaying all icons of the programs on it. Double-click the ?HDInstTools?-icon to start the program. After loading the program from disk, the main window and another window above appears. The controller searches for connected devices in the upper window. A filling bar indicates the status of progress. As soon as the search process is completed, the window disappears automatically. 1.4 Choosing a Language By default, the program starts in English. If you would like to use the program in a different language, please select the item SETTINGS/LANGUAGE in the pull down menu. A list of languages will be displayed immediately for you to choose from. Leave the window with USE. The main window should now appear in the selected language. 1.5 Installing the Harddisk The main window displays a list of all devices found as desribed in section 3.3. Please double-click the harddisk that you would like to install. You can distinguish between them using the displayed list. A window appears asking you to confirm your choice. Please click OK if this the harddisk that you would like to install. All parameters of the harddisk are determined and selected automatically and a partition is created. All data is written to the harddisk and the partition is formatted. 1.6 Copying Disks Last but not least, a requester appears asking whether you would like to copy the contents of a disk to the partition and if so, requests you to insert a disk in the disk drive ?df0:?. Just insert your Workbench-disk and click OK. However, if you would like to copy your own software to the partition, please abort at this point. Important! If you want to install a Workbench 2.0 or higher from the beginning you have to use the installation program of the Workbench. Therefor please read the Workbench manual. It isn't enough to copy only the Workbench disk onto the harddisk. 1.7 The Final Step That's all. You have now installed your harddisk. Please reboot your computer by clicking the REBOOT gadget and your system will start the Workbench from your new harddisk, provided that you copied it as described in the section above. 2. HDInstTools 2.1 System Requirements This program requires an Amiga with at least 512 kByte of RAM - memory and an Amiga operating system 1.3 or higher. Of course a controller with at least one mass media storage device is required for sensible use. This program supports all controllers, which use the Amiga Rigid-Disk-Block (RDB or RDSK) standard. 2.2 Installation In order to install the program on your harddisk you must drag the ?HDInstTools?-icon from the disk window to the harddisk window. This requires of course, that you have already installed your harddisk. Until then you can use the program from the disk. If you like, you may also create a directory for the ?HDInstTools? to copy the program into that drawer. This completes the installation. 2.3 Compatability Please note: A harddisk installed with the ?HDInstTools? from scratch may not be altered with the ALF-programs ?InstallAlf? and ?AlfPrefs? anymore. The ?HDInstTools? install the harddisks in such an optimized form, that the ALF-programs cannot cope with them anymore. If you do not obey this, the ALF-program will remove the installation of your harddisk and all your data is lost. However, if you installed your harddisk with ?InstallALF? or ?ALFPrefs?, you can use ?HDInstTools? without problems. This applies in most cases and probably also in yours. If that is so, you do not need to reinstall your harddisk. The program is fully compatible with harddisks installed with the Amiga HDToolBox program. Harddisks installed with HDInstTools can safely altered with HDToolBox and vice versa. 2.4 Operation Instructions The program is controlled with a mouse. In many cases you can also use your keyboard by pressing the corresponding key of the underlined letter in the gadget you wish to select. 2.5 The Procedure The following steps given in short form give you an idea of what it takes to install your harddisk. Prepare the device: In most cases you will not need to change the settings determined by the program. Filesystem: You may decide which type of filesystem you would like to save on the device. Partition drive: You may create a new partition with Add Partition. Edit partitions: This allows you to rename a partition, to make a partition smaller or to add another partition. Saving changes to disk: The selections you made in the last four steps are saved to the RigidDiskBlock on your harddisk. Formatting DOS: Prepares a partition for the use of AmigaDOS. Copy disk: Copies the contents of an entire disk to a partition. Naturally you do not have to execute all of the steps described above. Just use whatever is necessary when installing your harddisk. In case you would like to change the partitions, like the names or the buffers for example, all you need to do is edit the partition and save the changes to your harddisk. 2.6 Pull Down Menu Many of the items in the pull down menu can be selected using a key combination. To select an item press the <right Amiga> key and the key displayed next to the function in the pull down menu. 2.6.1 Project/Scan This function searches for devices connected to the controller. You do not need to restart the computer and the program, if you connected one or more devices during operation. After selection of the item a display appears giving the status of the search process. You may stop the process by clicking Cancel. If a device is found, the program tries to identify it and determine its parameters. The devices found are then displayed in the list of all available devices in the main window, as well as their status. 2.6.2 Project/Info An information window displays the currently used driver name, the current installation mode, whether logical IDs are supported and whether controllers of the same kind are also searched for. It also displays the size of the main memory, the graphic memory and the largest available block of free memory. You can quit this window by selecting OK. When this window is open, no other function can be selected. 2.6.3 Project/About This window contains the program name, the version number, copyright information and the names of the authors. Quit this window with OK. When this window is open, no other function can be selected. 2.6.4 Project/Quit It was hard to guess, but with Quit you leave the program. You may also quit the program by clicking the close gadget in the upper left hand corner of the main window. Before the program quits, you are asked to confirm your choice. Click YES if you like to quit, or NO if you would like to continue using the program. 2.6.5 Settings/Language You may choose one of the available languages with this function. As soon as you have selected this item, a list of languages will be displayed immediately for you to choose from. The current language is highlighted. Select a language and click USE to leave the window. If you select Cancel you'll leave the window without using the changes made. In order to save the changes for later use, select Settings/Save. 2.6.6 Settings/Mode With mode you may select between one of two installation modes. Depending on the selected mode some functions in the main window or in the pull down menues are disabled and can therefore not be selected. In the automatic mode all decisions concerning the installation and selection of parameters for your harddisk are taken by the program. This way you aren't given a chance to make any mistakes. The manual mode gives you access to all parameters. Please note that in this mode you have access to parameters that my lead to serious problems or malfunction, if they are set wrong. 2.6.7 Settings/Save This lets you save all changes made in the settings. You will not be asked to confirm your choice. The settings are saved in the ?ToolTypes? of the icon. 2.6.8 Extras All functions mentioned above, are described in further detail in later sections. 2.7 Main Window This window displays a list of all available devices, as well as several gadgets used to access the different parts of the program. 2.7.1 Devices in System This list contains all devices which can be accessed by the driver set in ?ToolTypes?. PIC: This number distinguishes between several controllers connected to one computer. In case you have only one controller in your computer this will always be set ?0?. The support of several controllers is enabled or disabled with the keyword ?PIC? in the ?ToolTypes?. LUN: The logic unit number distinguishes between possible installed logical sub-devices in the computer. The support of several logical sub-devices is disabled with the keyword ?LUN? in the ?ToolTypes?. TID: This states the identification number (Target ID) of the listed devices. This number is set via jumpers or switches directly at the device. It is recommended to start counting with the identification number zero. Manufacturer: The heading ?Manufacturer? lists the nam...
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