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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: golem on April 27, 2018, 06:33:54 PM
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I'm trying to install OS3.9 from an ISO I made on Mac but I guessed there was something wrong with it as it fails to mount with no message and then when I cd to the device (CDE or VCD0) it says "Not a DOS disk". When I try to create a new ISO with ImgBurn on PC it can only do .bin because of audio tracks on the CD. How did you guys create your ISO please?
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Using dd on mac.
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Buying it.
To make a bootable amiga cd you need :
A working WB
MakeCD or Burnit
The TM files : CDTV or CD32
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Google is your friend, faster than creating an ISO yourself.
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Just buy the official CD-Rom and save yourself the bother!
http://www.vesalia.de/e_os39.htm
39.90 Euros and the chance to support an Amiga retailer! Bargain!
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When I try to create a new ISO with ImgBurn on PC it can only do .bin because of audio tracks on the CD. How did you guys create your ISO please?
I use CDBurnerXP, it allows to choose between .iso and .mds as image file type. The former only copies the data track of course. The audio tracks are not needed.
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AFAIR the audio tracks are used as part of the copyright detection when installing BB 1 & 2.
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No, they aren't. Only the audio and video files on the CD are used for that purpose.
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No, they aren't. Only the audio and video files on the CD are used for that purpose.
Gotcha, thanks! I couldn't remember exactly. ;)
In any case, +1 to the previous comment that said to just buy the CD. :)
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I thought the point of OP was that he has a CD and wants to make an iso of it, as backup, to simplify installations on emulators, FPGA systems or even real Amiga, or whatever. Who in this time and age bothers with spinning optical medium anyways? Must be more than a decade ago that I used a real CD drive on anything Amiga (apart from CDTV and CD32).
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Thanks guys. I own a copy of OS3.9 and needed to make an ISO that works. I got it working finally. The step I was missing on the Mac is after creating an CD/Disk master (.cdr) with Disk utility you need to convert it to ISO with the command from the terminal;
"hdiutil makehybrid -iso -joliet -o AmigaOS3.9.cdr AmigaOS3.9.iso"
then I used Thomas's advice and zip file from here to mount it and create Emergency Disk.
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=40468&highlight=start.zip
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I thought the point of OP was that he has a CD and wants to make an iso of it, as backup, to simplify installations on emulators, FPGA systems or even real Amiga, or whatever. Who in this time and age bothers with spinning optical medium anyways? Must be more than a decade ago that I used a real CD drive on anything Amiga (apart from CDTV and CD32).
Who bothers with optical media?
I still do occassionally.
My laptop has an optical drive, I still rent dvd or blue ray discs because it's cheaper than streaming (and capturing a copy of a stream is difficult).
Optical media is cheap, so giving it or sending it to others is no big deal.
And lastly, I don't live my life constantly tied to an internet connection.
Only the deluded bother with that.
Technology has given us a multitude of ways to crawl up our own asses.
And then there is the constant rush to the replaces things.
If it's working, I don't feel the need to replace it.
And the only substitute I use on occasion is the humble usb thumbdrive.
The real question you should ask is who uses floppies, because you still need those antiques to load the software you need to access the cd's and usb devices on our antique legacy platforms.
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The real question you should ask is who uses floppies, because you still need those antiques to load the software you need to access the cd's and usb devices on our antique legacy platforms.
http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/
it is an ageing product series :hammer:
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Thanks guys. I own a copy of OS3.9 and needed to make an ISO that works. I got it working finally. The step I was missing on the Mac is after creating an CD/Disk master (.cdr) with Disk utility you need to convert it to ISO with the command from the terminal;
"hdiutil makehybrid -iso -joliet -o AmigaOS3.9.cdr AmigaOS3.9.iso"
Yeah, all that "mac magic" that can easily be avoided just by using dd in the first place :)
dd if=/dev/diskN of=mycd.iso bs=10m where "diskN" corresponds to the disk device that is the DVD, the bs=10m is just so that it reads 10MB chunks at a time, instead of 512kB chunks, makes it faster.
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Thanks Kolla. I'll use that next time. I had problems because I read somewhere that you can rename Mac .cdr to .iso and they will work. This does not appear to be correct!