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Re: A3000 Install Disk?
« on: May 21, 2003, 07:06:12 AM »
:-? I was unaware that the A3000 had install disks.  Mine works just fine without one.  Of course, I bought mine second hand, but still...
 

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Re: A3000 Install Disk?
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2003, 07:31:31 AM »
;-) Oh, you mean Kickstart disks!  Mine was like that too.  I never had a floppy copy of the kickstart file, it was stored on the hard drive at wb_2.x:Devs/kickstart, or something similar.  Look on your hard drive for the file, and copy it to another floppy.  That should do the trick.

:roll: That machine gave me quite a start when I first got it.  One of the first things I did was to rename the boot partition to something more "sensible," DH0:

:-o Unfortunately, the on-board chips couldn't find the kickstart file to boot from.  Booting from floppy to fix it didn't work either, as the floppy also didn't have the kickstart data.
:idea:I was able to correct the situation by temporarily moving the hard disk to another Amiga, and renaming it there.  Since then, I've added real 3.1 ROM chips, so my A3000 no longer has that trouble.  You might want to consider that option, too.