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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: 3246251196 on May 19, 2006, 10:47:03 PM

Title: cheat your way to a cd-drive
Post by: 3246251196 on May 19, 2006, 10:47:03 PM

if you have pcmcia networking then why cannot you just use your PC drive as an amiga drive

for instance, put os3.5 cd in pc and run install from the amiga (via network)

this way you have your own drive, right?

Title: Re: cheat your way to a cd-drive
Post by: Thomas on May 19, 2006, 11:01:40 PM

You can. Just use SMBFS or FTP-Mount.

Bye,
Thomas

Title: Re: cheat your way to a cd-drive
Post by: 3246251196 on May 19, 2006, 11:30:07 PM

ftp-mount for me, my main man!

good, so no need to spend money on a CD-Drive ;)

Title: Re: cheat your way to a cd-drive
Post by: 3246251196 on May 21, 2006, 08:38:25 PM

so this mean, also: i could place

OS3.5 cd in PC CD-Drive
use FTPMount
From amiga - click the install function
And thus install 3.5 on my A1200?

Title: Re: cheat your way to a cd-drive
Post by: motorollin on May 21, 2006, 09:19:06 PM

Yes that would work. It would be very slow though. Just make sure you create an assign for the name of the CD to your FTP mounted drive. For example, if your CD's volume name was "AmigaOS3.5" and your FTP mounted drive was "FTP" then type the following in to a shell before running the installer:

1.>assign amigaos3.5: ftp:

This will make sure the installer can find the files it needs if it references the CD by volume name.

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moto