Putting ADF's on floppy w/out a hard drive

[AmigaPete]

->amazing; I don't think you comprehend the problem that BGary has - he has the ADF file on a PC and needs to put it onto his Amiga (with no hard drive) to write to a floppy. The ADF file is bigger than the space available on a PC formatted floppy.

BGary,
You may be able to use some type of split/join or ZIP (Zipping into two parts) commands. IIRC I used to have to do this but I cannot think of the actual utilities at the moment. A search of Aminet should find something.

UPDATE: just checked, there are some relatively new split/join utilities on Aminet that are multiplatform and should do the trick - if you have enough room in RAM to rejoin them and then run the ADF program. That may be your next hurdle.

Pete  :-)

[AmigaPete]

Yes, the RAM drive will run out of room because the system itself is using a certain amount of memory due to processes run at bootup. I am not completely familiar with running a 1 MB machine (it has been a while) but I seem to recall that there are some tutorials out there that outline how to create a very memory light boot disk. Once you get that then you will probably have to use a command line version of the ADF-to-floppy program, as any sort of GUI interface will use memory. Hopefully some of the others may point you in the direction of where to find the info on creating the 'light' boot disk - I'm thinking it may be a simple as making a copy of the WB floppy and then editing the startup sequence and user-startup files.

Pete  :-)

[AmigaPete]

BGary,
I have been thinking about that a bit. I would copy a normal boot disk and then begin to REM out commands like ADDBUFFERS, RESIDENT and maybe try and not load workbench - you will have to do all the actions from the shell/cli. A basic workbench shouldn't have too much extra stuff on it. By not loading workbench you will probably save the most amount of RAM. Try booting without the "C:Copy >NIL: ENVARC: RAM:ENV ALL NOREQ" or similar command, but you might have to alter the assignment to this "ASSIGN >NIL: ENV: ENVARC:".
Just perform one action at a time and reboot to test that it all works fine still. You will have to copy over the ADF utility to the test workbench boot disk so you will have it when you need it.

Pete  :-)