Getting Started; Booting Floppy-Based Systems; Booting Hard Disk-Based Systems - Commodore Amiga A1200 User Manual

Chapter 2
Getting Started
This chapter covers booting your Amiga system for the first time,
using the keyboard, and using keyboard mouse equivalents.
Booting Floppy-Based Systems
When an Amiga system is turned on, it looks for a bootable floppy
disk in the internal floppy drive, DFO:. This disk can be a copy of
your Workbench disk or a bootable application disk.
If a bootable disk is not found, a floppy-based Amiga (no hard drive)
prompts you by showing a screen with a disk being inserted into a
drive. When a bootable floppy disk is inserted into DFO:, the screen
goes blank while the Amiga loads the system information it needs
from the disk.
Booting from floppy takes about two minutes. When the process is
complete, you should see a screen similar to that illustrated in
Figure 2-1.
Booting Hard Disk-Based Systems
The Amiga can boot directly from a hard disk if your system has
one. You do not need to insert any floppy disks. Hard disk users
may boot from floppy, however, by inserting a bootable disk in DFO:
before rebooting or turning the Amiga on.
Booting from hard disk generally takes about 30 seconds. When the
process is complete, you should see a screen similar to that
illustrated in Figure 2-1.