ralph@lasso.UUCP (Ralph P. Sobek) (02/18/88)
Concerning HINSTALL, etc., it wasn't either on my hard-disk floppy provided
with my SH-204. But on the ATARINET server at Houston in file AB204.UUE,
once downloaded and dearced, you find amongst the files:
HINSTALL.PRG .RSC .DOC
204BOOT.IMG
204ROOT.IMG
PARK.PRG
I've tried HINSTALL together with HDB (v 2.4) and have had no problems.
I hope that this helps!
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[] Finally, HINSTALL (the official Atari boot-from-hard-disk utility) has been posted on comp.binaries.atari.st. Questions: I am now using HDB 2.3 for the same purpose. Is there any reason to replace it with HINSTALL? If I want to replace it, how do I get rid of what HDB left in the master boot sector on the HD? Just deactivating HDB through itself does NOT restore the disk to its former state before first installing HDB. I once tried to install the Supra HD booter over HDB and ended up having to reformat the HD. One (ugly but feasible) solution is to overwrite the master boot sector, or the relevant parts of it, with the image of a freshly-formatted (and partitioned the same way as before) HD boot sector. Alas, I forgot to save such an image before I installed HDB. Anybody care to post such, perhaps with comments on what's where on that sector (partition information especially) ? - Moshe Braner PS: should I buy Neo-Desk given the description of the new ROMs? PPS: Stop contra aid: boycott cocaine!