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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: gizz72 on January 22, 2012, 10:18:14 AM

Title: How do you install/mount HDFs and ADFs to a real Amiga??
Post by: gizz72 on January 22, 2012, 10:18:14 AM

Greetings,

I was trying out to install classicWB on my A1200, when it hit me. I was extracting the file from zip when i notice the 'system' file is in HDF format. Some would probably scamper immediately to a pc and run WinUae for that then burn that to a cd or dvd. As it is the same with adfs. I don't find that routine convenient. So Is there a way to install or mount HDF's and/or ADFs on a real Amiga?

By the way, I'm running it on my A1200 AmigaOS v3.9, 32MB fast, Cobra DKB030. 40Gigs HDD.

Regards,

GiZz72

Title: Re: How do you install/mount HDFs and ADFs to a real Amiga??
Post by: foleyjo on January 22, 2012, 10:47:40 AM

http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/diskimage.m68k-aos
:)

Title: Re: How do you install/mount HDFs and ADFs to a real Amiga??
Post by: Thomas on January 22, 2012, 10:51:35 AM

ADFs can be mounted easily. There are many packages for this on Aminet, for example FMS, XFS, DiskImage and many more.

For HDFs it is more difficult because they can be of different size. Diskimage.device can surely mount a HDF but you have to make an individual dosdriver for each size. You can take the dosdriver for a ADF and change heads = 1, sectors = 32 and cylinders to match the size of the hdf. Divide the size of the HDF in bytes by 512 and by 32 to get right number of cylinders.

Title: Re: How do you install/mount HDFs and ADFs to a real Amiga??
Post by: gizz72 on January 22, 2012, 11:08:05 AM

@foleyjo & Thomas
Thanks for the quick response, I'll give it a try on both. I'm sure my 40 gig will handle it.