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Title: Setting up cf hard drive in windows for a1200?
Post by: haywirepc on February 20, 2010, 06:03:24 AM

Can someone please tell me, can I setup an os3.x setup from winuae/amiga forever files onto a compact flash card for booting on an a1200?

If so is there any how to guides online or are there some tricks to doing this well? Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. I have a cf card, adapter for a1200 but no wb floppies, no cd-rom or other way to directly install this on the a1200.
 
I was hoping I could use winuae with the cf card connected to the pc to create a cf bootable hard drive with os3.x for the a1200.
 
Thanks for everyones thoughts or ideas on doing something like this...
 
Steven

Title: Re: Setting up cf hard drive in windows for a1200?
Post by: Gulliver on February 20, 2010, 06:32:38 AM

Quote from: haywirepc;544041

 
I was hoping I could use winuae with the cf card connected to the pc to create a cf bootable hard drive with os3.x for the a1200.
 
Steven

Yes you can do it! It is a bit tricky though once you learn the method, you will be able to repeat that without any fuss.

I will search a guide for you....

Title: Re: Setting up cf hard drive in windows for a1200?
Post by: Thomas on February 20, 2010, 06:37:13 AM

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=446135&postcount=27

If the CF card is smaller than 4GB you can leave out all the special things with LoadModule, SCSI_IDE, patchstrip and so on.

Title: Re: Setting up cf hard drive in windows for a1200?
Post by: Gulliver on February 20, 2010, 06:40:33 AM

Well @Thomas won me ;)
Other threads which have complementary information to the guide posted above are:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=41154&highlight=amiga+compact+flash+WinUAE

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=35865&highlight=amiga+compact+flash+WinUAE

Title: Re: Setting up cf hard drive in windows for a1200?
Post by: haywirepc on February 20, 2010, 06:59:44 AM

Wow I'm thankful you took the time to post that but a bit discouraged. That seems alot more complicated than I'd hoped.
 
I thought it would be alot simpler. I thought I could just add the disk to winuae, format it with hdtools then reboot winuae from wb3.x floppies images and install to the cf card.
 
If I am trying to do this with an ide hard drive, is the process the same or any simpler?
 
Thanks for your thoughts,
 
Steven

Title: Re: Setting up cf hard drive in windows for a1200?
Post by: Gulliver on February 20, 2010, 07:33:46 AM

it is not so hard!
You simply:  
1-plug your drive to your PC
2-Run WinUAE with the -disableharddrivesafetycheck command line option
3-Add the drive to WinUAE (Add Harddrive)
4-Boot your WinUAE with the workbench installation floppy and continue from there.
5-Remember to set the correct parameters in HDtoolbox for partitioning your drive (as mentioned in the guide)

But then if you are using a drive bigger than 4GB you need a patch (the guide explains how to do this).

That is basicly all there is to it.

Title: Re: Setting up cf hard drive in windows for a1200?
Post by: fitzsteve on February 20, 2010, 12:53:56 PM

Quote from: Gulliver;544048

it is not so hard!
You simply:
1-plug your drive to your PC
2-Run WinUAE with the -disableharddrivesafetycheck command line option
3-Add the drive to WinUAE (Add Harddrive)
4-Boot your WinUAE with the workbench installation floppy and continue from there.
5-Remember to set the correct parameters in HDtoolbox for partitioning your drive (as mentioned in the guide)
 
But then if you are using a drive bigger than 4GB you need a patch (the guide explains how to do this).
 
That is basicly all there is to it.

Or if your card is bigger then 4gb only partition within the first 4gb of the card with partitions smaller then 2gb.
 
I use 500mb for sys(DH0) 1gb for storage/demos (DH1) and 1.7gb for games. (DH2)
 
Steve.