286 bridgeboard

[EdKing]

I just got a 286 bridge board from eBay, can anyone tell me how to set up a hard drive for it ? is there anywhere I can download the manual for the janus software ? I can get it to boot of off a floppy drive, but I'd like to get it to boot from a haed drive, either file or partition.

Thanks in advance

Ed King

[EdKing]

Can anyone tell me where I can find version 1.7 of DMS ?

Ed King

[EdKing]

Thanks for the info, I think I have it working now. I am going through all this to try to use a PC network card to access the network from my Amiga. I'd like to get on the internet with my DSL, but would just be happy to be able transfer files faster than with a serial cable.

Ed King
 

[EdKing]

I am going to try it on a 2000 with a FusionForty 040/28. I am still having a little trouble, have to keep working at it. I'll let everyone know my results. Once again, thanks to everyone for thier help.

Ed King

[EdKing]

I've currently 2 A2386 bridgeboards in my possession. Is this "Etherbridge" capable of allowing me the use of an ISA network card on the Amiga side via one of these bridgeboards? Can someone elaborate on that product a little more?

You can use either Etherbridge, or Emunet, both available on Aminet. I have successfully connected to the Internet via my DSL router using a 286 bridgeboard and both packages, pretty decent download speeds. I am currently trying to get SAMBA to work so I can access my PC from my Amiga. I didn't have any luck using Miami, but I got AmiTCP v4 demo to work with EmuNet. If you decide to try it let me know and I'll give you any pointers I can.

Ed King

[EdKing]

Would I need to do a complete install and configuration of the Janus software, etc. before I attempt this?

You need to install the Janus software, you can get it here. The install from the Janus2.1 disk will setup a harddrive file to boot the BridgeBoard. You will need to install MSDOS. The software installation is fairly easy for the PC side, geting AmiTCP going can be a little tricky.

BTW, you said you had 2 2386 boards, you wouldn't be interested in selling one would you ?

Ed King