Amiga 4000 install problem

[gdanko]

About a year ago I picked up a free Amiga 4000 030/25 desktop machine that is in pretty nice shape!

It had a 1.2 GB drive and a single floppy. I was never able to boot the machine and after plugging in an 800k floppy drive I realized the internal floppy on the 4000 was dead.

I installed KS 3.1 and a new hard disk, then booted off a 3.1 WB disk using the 800k drive. I was able to partition the hard disk using HDTool.

When I tried to install the OS I got to about 12%. The installer asked me to insert the Workbench floppy. After inserting the floppy and clicking proceed, the screen flashed as if I had put in the wrong disk. Thinking my 3.1 disk may be bad I tried to install off 3.0 disks. Same deal.

It looks as if the floppy drive did not update itself when I put in the WB disk. I installed to my A2000 using the same method.

Am I doing something wrong?

[gdanko]

Hmmm... I can boot off the drive into a workbench disk but removing the disk and inserting a new one does not update in the GUI.

I will try the diskchange command tomorrow evening.
Hopefully that will get me installed.

[gdanko]

Thanks Matt, I will also doublecheck the cable. Wish me luck!

[gdanko]

Well here is the final answer on the install woes. The original FZ-357 was *not* bad afterall. After a call to my local Amiga shop (yes, we have one here) I confirmed someone's earlier post. On the A4000, DF0 has to be plugged into the MIDDLE outlet on the floppy cable and not on the end. When I plugged the FZ-357 into the correct outlet on the floppy cable everything worked. The floppy drive spun back to life and disk swapping worked.

One weird glitch came up during install. It did not cause the install to fail but it has me alarmed. I have two 4 GB partitions on the disk. These were created by the Amiga's HDToolbox default configuration option. After inserting the "Extras" disk during install I get a message something along the lines of:

There is not enough space on the target disk to copy the Amiga system fonts. You may copy the fonts after freeing up space by dragging the disk Fonts: on top of the disk System:

I can Abort or Proceed. If I proceed the rest of the install completes, including copying files from the Storage disk and more files off the Install disk. Has anyone ever seen this weirdness? Is 4 GB too large to install 3.1 to? I am able to boot the 4000 afterward and everything appears to be working.

My 4000 is a Rev. B if that matters.