🚀 go-pugleaf

These are probably quiche-eater questions, but I'm a Mac-a-phile
helping out a friend who has an Amiga (but no access to Usenet)...

Question #1:  can an Amiga 2000 be made to automatically boot from
              internal hard disk?  Right now, he has to boot from a
              diskette, which then transfers control to the internal 
              Seagate 20Meg hard disk.
              We tried putting all the files from the boot diskette onto 
              the hard disk, but when we power cycled it just asked for
              the boot diskette.  The hard disk access light didn't even
              go on though, which seems mighty suspicious.
      
              BTW, his dealer says you *can't* boot from an internal hard disk,
              but I assumed that he was just a typical ignorant dealer....


Question #2:  what is the magical incantantation you have to put in your
              startup-sequence script to get it to look at the "Preference"
              settings?  We changed the colors, but it insisted on coming up
              in the old colors.  When we fired up Preference and choose the
              "old colors" (or whatever it was called), it used our new color
              scheme.

Any help with these questions would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!!  
Thanks!

BTW, it is an Amiga 2000 with a Seagate 20Meg non-scsi hard disk, running
WorkBench release 1.2, version 33.59, kickstart version 33.180.  Is this
a relatively recent/healthy version of the Amiga o.s.?


-Ted