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panicacid wrote:
Back? Hell I never left.. *Throws Cannon Fodder Disk Onto the table* That bad boy has been in my pocket since I was 9, Thats how oldskool I am lol.


I was originally looking at that site but it doesn't explain how to go about installing the OS after installing the drive.
Basically I would like some one to draw in crayon what I gota do to get it booting off the disk and loading the OS, or workbench if I can get it to boot workbench off the drive I'll be happy, I could finally install all those demo's I have on disks that came with Amiga mags and install Valhalla again and actually SAVE ha.

Thanks for the quick reply.

Pop over to Amigakit and buy AmigaOS 3.1 that should do the job :-)

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This is what you need:

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=47&products_id=177&osCsid=4b290217230bdc027b59336e3fb9ab97

Will cost you £15 though...

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panicacid wrote:
Yeah been looking at that, but 3.1 won't support my laptop HDD will it?

Of course it will!!! Why on earth do you think it wouldn't?

Is there no way I can get 4 on there without a CD? can I make an image of the os 4 disk and put it on the HDD or am I just way ahead of Amiga's time?

Forget 4... it's PPC only, it will never run on the A600... it doesn't offer much over 3.1 anyway.

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panicacid wrote:
Ah kk, the reason I thaught that is....

"You can use any 2.5 inch hard drive you want in the Amiga 600. You will however need a cable that fits the narrow 2.5 inch IDE connector. The hard drive also gets power through this connector. Keep in mind that the Amiga OS is very memory efficient. A 500 to 1000 MByte hard drive will suffice easily. If you want to install other operating systems like Linux or MacOS, too, you will however need a larger disk. If the hard disk you plan to use is larger than 4 GB, you will need at least Amiga OS 3.5 (3.1 will only work with some patches)."

Taken from the amiga600.de site....

You'll only need the patches if you want to use more than 4gig of the drive... make a partition about 2 gig in size and get the OS installed. Then add the new IDE driver, and then partition the rest of the drive :-)

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panicacid wrote:
Ah, it's all slowly starting to make sence.. Kinda' I've bookmarked all the pages, and was shocked to find that Paul, the guy who created the workbench i'm going to install died at 27....

Who the hell is Paul?

I'll get the drive installed hopefully Wednesday when this cable turns up, you'll probably hear from me then no doubt.

:-D

I prefered the look of the OS to the workbench,

Workbench is part of the OS...? not sure what you mean here...

 I'll probably just try that 3.1 after the workbench is on, surely it can't be that hard *rolls eyes* I've still got a 600 page book on "Coding in Amiga Basic" if that will help me any... Came with the Amiga .

I don't think AmigaBASIC came with the A600... last amiga to have that was the A500... I'm sure... :-?