> Chris Green wrote,
>
> As I regularly have to trash
> > the software installation on my 3000 in the course of reviewing for
> > Amigactive, I need the convenience of being able to return to a CD
> > containing at least a basic set of working applications, regardless of
> > whether they are older versions or beta's, in order to do a reinstall (after
> > all, that was what I paid for).
>
> You really don't have to do that. Just back up the partition with
> your boot Workbench and applications (Work?) and you can restore the
> status quo with no problems after trying the new software or hardware.
> I've had to do that dozens of times after changes of hard disk,
> additions of new Zorro Cards, installing PFS2 and 3, getting over
> OS3.5 problems. . . . I think you get the picture.
<snip>
> So please stop using your political clout as a magazine editor to piss
> of one of the last, best hopes for the Amiga.
>
> Regards
> Roy Leith
>
Yes, I agree. You would have thought that a technical editor of a
computing magazine would have known how to do what you have stated,
ie copy the prog/progs to another partition.
Doesn't say much for the magazine.
faf
