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Offline GojiraxTopic starter

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Creating a boot disk in OS3.9 with CD drivers
« on: March 05, 2007, 07:46:24 PM »
This might sound a little lame, but I'm QUITE out of practice with my Amigas.

- I have an A1200 with OS3.9 pre-installed and no CD-ROM.

- I have an OS3.9 CD.

- I have an Amiga 4000d with a blank hard drive and 3.1 ROMS and a CD-ROM.

- I have no boot floppy that will allow my A4000 to see the CD drive.

- How can I use my A1200 to create a 3.9 boot disk for the A4000 that will load the CD drivers?

I haven't checked my IDE-Fix floppy yet, but since I have no functioning operating system floppies I'm not sure how to get the A4000 up and running.

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My A4000 has 3.1 ROMS and a Warp Engine 040 accelerator. It was a Video Toaster system at one time, and I was able to boot it up with the old OS 3.0 120 meg IDE drive, but had no CD Rom support.

I'm just new to OS 3.9 and back when I setup an Amiga from scratch I had my OS 3.1 disk set and my IDE Fix disk and was able to get everything setup from there!

Thanks,
Jack
 

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Re: Creating a boot disk in OS3.9 with CD drivers
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2007, 08:03:20 PM »
Awesome! That's exactly the information I needed!

Thanks so much!

I'll give that a go. (I don't have a working 3.1 boot floppy, but I can make the disk from the list above, and add atapi.device from my IDE Fix disk.)

 

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Re: Creating a boot disk in OS3.9 with CD drivers
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2007, 05:09:10 AM »
Ok, I tried to make the boot floppy and it boots to AmigaDOS, but gives an error "Version failed with error code 20" and doesn't load workbench.

I've created the file and folder structure noted above and used the "Install DF0:" command to make it bootable.

What am I missing?