Partitioning 140Mb HD and Installing WB 3.0

[Matt_H]

Welcome back to the wonderful world of Amigas.

Hopefully you have an Install disk. Fire that up, and load HDToolbox to partition the drive. Once the partitions are ready, use the Format utility in Workbench:System to initialize them. Then use that same disk to install Workbench, and you're good to go.

If the Install disk isn't bootable, boot from Workbench3.0, and then use the Install disk. I don't recall how it's set up.

[Matt_H]

Okaaaaay.... Now you might be in trouble. You need a complete set of disks. To be honest, I would advise investing in AmigaOS3.1. It'll give you the latest KickStart roms, so you can upgrade to 3.5 or 3.9 if you want, and it'll come with a full set of disks.

What disks DO you have? Even if you can get the hard drive partitioned, you need the Install disk to get the OS onto the drive. Maybe someone can send you theirs...

[Matt_H]

The PC0 DOSDriver may not be on the Workbench disk. If it's not, copy it from Storage/DOSDrivers to Workbench:Devs/DOSDrivers. Now you can read PC Floppies, with the following restrictions:
1) Unless you have a high density drive in your Amiga, you're limited to smaller (700k) double density PC floppies.
2) WB 3.0's version of CrossDOS (to read PC disks) is very old and limited to 8.3 DOS filenames. Files inside archives are not affected.

I *think* Workbench comes with LhA in the C: directory, so you should be able to extract files. If not, get this fiie: http://ftp.plig.org/aminet/dirs/aminet/util/arc/LhA.run and run it from RAM:. Copy lha to c:, and your system can perform at least a few more tasks independently. I just hope your Workbench disk has enough space. DO NOT delete files to clear up space from an original disk. Make a backup.