A2000 Formatted HELP!

[ddogg66]

Ok, once you have the HD formatted, you need to boot from the WB floppy disk, open it and go into the shell.

Then say:

copy sys: dh0: all clone

"output directory not found" is the message I get. I titled my previously untitled disk "workbench" and have replaced all occurences of "DH0" to "workbench" .

Here is where I am: I have the system booted from the 1.3 WB disk and have my HD now mounted (named "workbench") and a ram disk mounted (3 disks mounted)
So, what do I do now? I'm tempted to drop the WB disk in my "workbench" disk. Will this work or MUST I use the CLI window? If I must use the CLI window, I've tried all the previously mentioned command lines but none seem to do the job.
Let's start over. I have 3 mounted disks and no bootable partition ( i only have one partition it seems) So where to now? How to copy the full WB disk to HD?

Thanks again all!! 8-)

[ddogg66]

But as you've already formatted try:
  copy df0:#? dh0: all clone
When you have the wb1.3 disk in drive

Tryed typing this exactly as you did--bad argument
then typed copy df0:#? workbench: all clone--bad argument

My drive is named "workbench". Should I use that name with these CLI commands or DH0?

What happens if you reset with no floppy disk in?
If you just reformatted and didn't mess with the partitions it should still boot.  But because you formatted the drive it should just come up with a shell prompt.

This is exactly what happens. It boots with a shell prompt (ie 1>)

[ddogg66]

The formatting go ok?

You had any luck copying the OS across?

JohnN

Well, JohnN has been dedicating a lot of his time to me over IRC and has been overly helpful. He has spent *hours* helping me with my machine-a true Amiga saint! I would be so lost without him and IRC. the posting method is very slow compared to the chat.

Anyway I have done so many things to my system over the last 2 days it would be impossible to document it all here. In a nutshell, I was able to get the HD to mount by loading the trumcard floppy and booting while holding down the left mouse key (as wain so kindly pointed out). I then used the Trumpcard s/w to format and partition my drive. After i copied WB 1.2 over to dh0: and rebooted on the HD, I then installed my toaster 2.0 s/w w/o a hitch...
except..
now when i boot from HD, after installing toaster soft, i get this message:

setpatch:Unknown command
setpatch failed return code 10
1>

All i want to do is get my workbench up so I can start the toaster soft. What must i do? All the files are in order and dh0: is mounted.

thanks all! :-D

[ddogg66]

type:
copy df0:c/setpatch c:

This is the response i get

can't open copy df0:c/setpatch c: for input object not found

...and another thing.
If I hold down the left mouse key and boot off the WB1.2 floppy my HD partitions will mount.
If i don't hold down the left mouse button my HD will not mount.  
If i boot with no floppy then i get the setpatch error on boot??

I don't get it. if setpatch is a file missing from the WB1.2 disk, then why can't my miggy find that file when i try to copy from df0: to dh0: ? I can't find a file named "setpatch" anywhere in my WB1.2 floppy dir. what is it? and where is it?