Dodgy Workbench Install?

brian · 26 April 2004, 23:14

I've bought an A1200 on e-bay. It came with an 80MB hard drive with workbench installed, but I didn't get any workbench disks or manuals.

I don't think Workbench is working quite correctly because I can't open up a new shell prompt. All it does is bring up a window saying

RAM:T already exists
RAM:Clipboard already exists
RAM:ENV already exists
RAM:ENV/Sys already exists

It's a bog standard A1200, the kickstart version is 39.106 and the workbench version is 39.29.

I have the AMI-PC disk that boots up in to a workbench version 40.42, and executing newcli from that works fine.

Any help is appreciated.

Enverex · 26 April 2004, 23:41

Does this only happen when you try and open a new shell window, or does it do it on boot aswell?

brian · 26 April 2004, 23:53

It boots up fine. Seems to only happen when I try to open a new shell.

thomas · 27 April 2004, 09:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by brian

It boots up fine. Seems to only happen when I try to open a new shell.

Probably someone has copied startup-sequence into shell-startup.

Delete S:Shell-Startup and you should get a proper Shell prompt.

brian · 27 April 2004, 09:55

Yes, that has worked. Thankyou.

Djay · 27 April 2004, 23:32

back in the day, i never screwed with the startup-sequence on my amiga's 20mb hard-drive... i dared not touch the sacred scroll of boot sequence...

now i have A1200 & A600, both with HDs... i have butchered these buggers beyond belief... but they work fine

26 April 2004, 23:14	#1
brian Registered User Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Fareham / UK Age: 44 Posts: 23	Dodgy Workbench Install? I've bought an A1200 on e-bay. It came with an 80MB hard drive with workbench installed, but I didn't get any workbench disks or manuals. I don't think Workbench is working quite correctly because I can't open up a new shell prompt. All it does is bring up a window saying RAM:T already exists RAM:Clipboard already exists RAM:ENV already exists RAM:ENV/Sys already exists It's a bog standard A1200, the kickstart version is 39.106 and the workbench version is 39.29. I have the AMI-PC disk that boots up in to a workbench version 40.42, and executing newcli from that works fine. Any help is appreciated.

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26 April 2004, 23:41	#2
Enverex Fantasy Man! Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: UK Posts: 1,353	Does this only happen when you try and open a new shell window, or does it do it on boot aswell?

26 April 2004, 23:53	#3
brian Registered User Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Fareham / UK Age: 44 Posts: 23	It boots up fine. Seems to only happen when I try to open a new shell.

27 April 2004, 09:55	#5
brian Registered User Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Fareham / UK Age: 44 Posts: 23	Yes, that has worked. Thankyou.

27 April 2004, 23:32	#6
Djay 95th User Join Date: May 2001 Location: Brighton/UK Age: 48 Posts: 3,120	back in the day, i never screwed with the startup-sequence on my amiga's 20mb hard-drive... i dared not touch the sacred scroll of boot sequence... now i have A1200 & A600, both with HDs... i have butchered these buggers beyond belief... but they work fine

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