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Title: Another simple question - I canne see the wood from the trees!
Post by: Cyberus on November 08, 2003, 08:57:39 PM

I've never had this problem before with my A1200s, its always been easy, but I've fitted a new HD to my toy A600... and I can see the drive, partition it, format the partitions, make one of them bootable and copy files to it, but when I try to boot the machine....nothing!

I can use FFS with KS 2 can't I?

I'm probably being really stupid, but I'd rather someone enlighten me so I can have a 'doh!' moment, rather than carry on tearing my hair out...

Thanks

Title: Re: Another simple question - I canne see the wood from the trees!
Post by: Cass on November 08, 2003, 10:00:54 PM

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I can use FFS with KS 2 can't I?

Yes, sure you can.

You may try also the "c:install dh0: FFS". On hdtoolbox, save any changes to the drive, and leave the floppy "WB Install disk" write protection-off (write enabled) when saving the changes.

P.S. What size is the HD?
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Title: Re: Another simple question - I canne see the wood from the trees!
Post by: Cyberus on November 08, 2003, 10:12:00 PM

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Cass wrote:

You may try also the "c:install dh0: FFS". On hdtoolbox, save any changes to the drive, and leave the floppy "WB Install disk" write protection-off (write enabled) when saving the changes.

P.S. What size is the HD?

I've done what you mention (I'm booting with a WB2.04 disk and running HDTools off the WB3.1 Install disk in df1:)

The HD is an amazing 40MB in size!  :-o

(I want to sort it out and sell it, as I need the space!)

Title: Re: Another simple question - I canne see the wood from the trees!
Post by: Kronos on November 08, 2003, 10:21:47 PM

Could be that the HD-toolbox saves something 3.1-special to the HD.

Title: Re: Another simple question - I canne see the wood from the trees!
Post by: Cass on November 08, 2003, 10:31:45 PM

I've been using for my A600's 30MB HD, the "3.0 Install disk" from my A4000 without any problems. If you can find an older version than 3.1, might be better.

(I've installed the 3.1 OS after softkicking the A600! You can try to Softckick, and then install the RDB).
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Title: Re: Another simple question - I canne see the wood from the trees!
Post by: Jagabot on November 08, 2003, 10:38:38 PM

Does the hard drive boot up with a warm reset once it's been on for 20 or so seconds? Lots of older IDE drives don't spin up early enough to allow the Amiga to boot from them.

Title: Re: Another simple question - I canne see the wood from the trees!
Post by: Cyberus on November 10, 2003, 03:06:00 PM

@ Cass, Kronos and Jagabot

Thanks for your advice, I'll see what I can do today...

Title: Re: Another simple question - I canne see the wood from the trees!
Post by: odin on November 10, 2003, 04:58:57 PM

Maybe a silly remark of me, but doesn't OS2 have it's own HD Install disk?

Title: Re: Another simple question - I canne see the wood from the trees!
Post by: Steady on November 10, 2003, 05:12:00 PM

When you formatted with Install 3.1, you didn't have Directory Caching set, did you? Maybe that could be the problem.

Title: Re: Another simple question - I canne see the wood from the trees!
Post by: mikeymike on November 10, 2003, 05:22:11 PM

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You may try also the "c:install dh0: FFS". On hdtoolbox, save any changes to the drive, and leave the floppy "WB Install disk" write protection-off (write enabled) when saving the changes.

What's with leaving the protection off on the floppy disk?  Don't say "because it needs to write stuff", I want to know what and preferably why :-)

Title: Re: Another simple question - I canne see the wood from the trees!
Post by: Cyberus on November 10, 2003, 05:30:35 PM

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odin wrote:
Maybe a silly remark of me, but doesn't OS2 have it's own HD Install disk?

That may be - but despite having originals of WB1.3, 2, 3.0 and 3.1, I can only find the install disk for 3.1  :-(