BOOTUTE  A program developed by George Knight Automatic creation of a Boot Disk  (( 27 )) (( 27 )) (( 27 )) (( 27 )) (( 27 )) (( 27 )) (( 27 )) (( 27 )) INTRODUCTION Hardly a month goes by without a suggestion for a script to create a bootable disk. There is obviously a demand there! No doubt there are customers out there for a simpler approach because many lack the expertise needed to create and execute a script file. Well, for these people, this is their lucky day - BootUte has arrived! HOW IS IT DONE? Boot up with your workbench disk and either click on the BootUte icon or type BootUte into CLI. It is important that you use a workbench which has all of the files needed on the bootable disk in the expected directories. The standard Workbench 1.3 disk has everything you will require unless you specify ARP (see below). If you don't know what ARP stands for (NOT air raid precautions), don't specify it. A window opens showing five buttons across the top, two string gadgets beneath, an OK button and a Cancel button. The five buttons and their meaning are:- 1. DRIVE This is the drive into which a fresh disk will be placed to be initialised and to receive the files needed to make the disk bootable. When the window is first opened, DF1: is displayed because this will be the choice of those with an external drive. If you have no external drive, buy one or click on the button to change the drive to DF0: 2. INIT Use this option if you want BootUte to format the disk for you. Why not? Keep it simple! 3. RAM Change to YES by clicking if you wish to have a RAM drive. If in doubt, choose YES. 4. ARP Change to YES by clicking if you want to place the arp library on the target disk. The file arp.library must be in the libs directory of the workbench disk if you choose this option. 5. PRINT Change to YES by clicking if you need to be able to print from the disk being created. All of the relevant files (drivers, handlers, etc) on your workbench will be copied. The upper string gadget is used to specify the name to be attached to the bootable disk. Call it what you will or something better. The lower string gadget has the command to appear first in the startup sequence. If you leave LoadWB as the command string, after your disk boots up, you will get a disk icon just waiting to be clicked. If you want to boot immediately into a program without seeing the disk icon, enter the name of that program here. An EndCLI command will be placed automatically after this command. To enter a name into either of these string gadgets, activate the gadget by clicking within the appropriate box, press right-Amiga and X to clear and type in the name. Click on OK to begin the action. Click on Cancel if you have cold feet. BootUte first copies all of the files needed from your SYS: disk (Workbench) to RAM:. If any of the files needed is missing a message will appear identifying the file concerned and you may either continue (and copy the missing file later if you really want it) or cancel and start again when the missing file reappears. When this phase is complete, a message appears asking for a blank or unwanted disk to be placed in the drive you specified earlier. Insert a disk and press OK. A warning re files being overwritten is displayed and a click on OK starts disk initialization. BootUte does the rest. George Knight 1 Audie Pde Berkeley Vale 2259 NSW Australia  (( 27 )) (( 27 )) (( 27 )) (( 27 )) (( 27 )) (( 27 )) (( 27 )) (( 27 ))