SO MANY problems for a poor newbie!

[watcher]

Where do i start?

Basically, my A1200 has just arrived from ebay!
I have fitted a set of 3.1 ROMS and a Blizzard 68030 50Mhz accelerator with 32MB RAM. My problem is that i cant actually get any software onto it!!!! I only have workbench 3.0 so i ordered OS 3.9 but that is on CD and i havnt got any drivers for my PCMCIA CD-Rom! I cant get net access till i have put on OS 3.9, which i cant do without drivers (on the net!!). I have a Compact flash PCMCIA adaptor that doesnt work as the drivers for it are on the net!!! I have these all stored on my PC but no way of getting them to the Amiga! The floppy drive is incompatable, the cd doesnt work, and neither does the CF card! I cant even set up a network to transfer the files i need as the software is.....on the net!!!!!

 :-?

I also have a 2.5" hard drive but i dont have the Workbench HD disk to get it working

Also when i opened up the A1200 there's no where to put the HD! there's a space and 4 holes but they wont hold the drive! Am i missing some kind of mounting bracket?

Pleeeeeeaaaaaasssssssseeeee help me!!

[watcher]

Thanks for all your reply's!
The WB disks i have are: Amiga Workbench, Locale, Storage, Amiga Extra's and Amiga Font's. Which is all of them but i thought the HD util's etc were on another floppy?!

And what is the name of the program that allows the amiga to use PC formatted disk's? But remember if it's on the net i can only get it through my PC which means the Amiga won't be able to read the disk to run the program to allow it to read the disk!!!!!! (so confusing when i read it back!)

Also is there a generic driver for my PCMCIA CD-ROM drive?

[watcher]

God you guy's are life saver's!

Thanks for all your help!

[watcher]

ooohhh! It all worked a treat!

I also found this great program for formating 720K floppies when using Windows XP! (normally it will only let you format 1.44MB) here's the link!
http://www.softpile.com/Utilities/Disk_Utilities/Review_05155_index.html

[watcher]

If this is a cheeky or illegal request then i apologise!
Could someone email me an NON-COMPRESSED IN ANY WAY program for unzipping *.lha files? As ALL the programs i find for unzipping things are all zipped!!! (there is a small problem there!)

Thanks!

[watcher]

hhmmmm, ok i have downloaded the LHA program and run it, but (and this is embarrasing) could someone five me an example of what i need to type to extract a file in the Floppy drive?

Because when i run the program i get an "output" window with loads of instructions which i kind of understand, and it said "paused. press any key to continue" which i do but after scrolling down several pages of instruction's i get the message "lha failed returncode 20" and after that nothing i type has any effect!!

help!

[watcher]

Ok i know im a pain in the arse but....
Is there an easier way of extracting the LHA files?

Im completely new to the amiga and i hav'nt got a clue! Im used to clicking on icon's etc but using command prompts is beyond my knowledge!!!

I have been trying all afternoon but i still cant get it to work and im beginning to feel that i've just wasted alot of money trying to get an amiga set-up that im to thick to use

[watcher]

Hi
I managed to figure out what i was doing wrong!! It was a VERY silly and difficult to explain mistake!

The only problem's remaining are the HD Tools of which i have none! and also im having alot of trouble getting hold of drivers for my CD-ROM!

It's an AMACOM 16-BIT PCMCIA CD-ROM that only requires basic generic driver's for my PC, so was kinda hoping that there is just a basic set of drivers for all PCMCIA CD-ROMS on the amiga! And without them i wont be able to install OS 3.9! (in the post to me as we speak!)

Any suggestion's

Thanks

[watcher]

poo

[watcher]

Ok, so how would i add a CD-Rom to a untowered A1200 with a Blizzard 1230 Accelerator?

Thanks

[watcher]

Thinking about it, if i had a PCMCIA LAN card, is there a way to network my A1200 to my PC so i could use it's CD drive? I once did this with my Atari ST but it was VERY slow as i was using the serial cable, but the PCMCIA should be alot faster, no?

[watcher]

There's a nice towered A1200 on ebay at the moment! Maybe i should have just bought that insted!!!

But im now thinking of towering my A1200! Where the hell do i begin!!!!???

[watcher]

oh ok, i now feel very foolish!

I have been telling you all that i have Workbench 3.1 but i just checked the disk's and there 3.0!!!

Does this make a difference to the HD toolbox i need? Is it already included with 3.0 and if so on what disk?

Thanks

[watcher]

I have just looked through the WB 3.0 manual and it said that the "HD Toolbox" is in the "Tools" drawer on the "Extras" disk..........but ONLY on HD equiped systems!!!!!! My A1200 did'nt originaly come with a HD so im stuffed!!!

There must be somewhere i can download it from!!

[watcher]

Hi
I managed to locate this on aminet!
http://uk.aminet.net/pub/aminet/disk/misc/hdinst.lha

Will it solve my problem?

Thanks