Installation of WB3.1

[HyAmi]

Hi Folks,

I finally have the opportunity to setup my Amiga rig that I've been collecting the past two years. I haven't been able to play with it during that period. Now I want to make a fresh wb3.1 install on my A4000D. It's a standard A4000D with 040, 2MB chip, 4MB fast, A2320 and a 2GB WD Caviar disk.

I can use hdinstall from the Install disk, and I can make partitions. I just made one bootable partition. After making the partition I have to reboot. When I boot from the Workbench disk, I won't see the partition I made. When using the install disk, I first got partition on my workbench. (When I try it that way at this moment, nothing happens). At one point I was even able to install the complete set of disks. And after rebooting there wasn't anything to boot from. The partition doesn't show up in the early startup menu. When loaded from disks, I could see the installation at the harddisk.

I probably do something wrong, but I can't see what it is. So guru's; can you please help me?

[HyAmi]

What do you mean with the dostype? And how do I install the FastFileSystem to the RDB?

When I go to partition drive in HDToolbox, I see my 150MB partition with File System FFS International version 40.1

I changed the partition size a little, so I had to save the changes to the drive. After that follows the blabla that my oritinal partition will be destroyed. After that I have to reboot the system. When it's rebooted, there's no sign of the partition in Workbench.

So what's the next thing to do? Manually mounting the partition or something like that?

[HyAmi]

I just wanted to reply: "that's the problem, there isn't an HD icon in workbench". But I thought, I'd better double check. And to my surprise this time an icon appeared of a non dos disk. I then formatted the partition. After rebooting, the partition was gone in workbench. By opening the hdtoolbox the partition was recognised again. So then I installed workbench succesfully. And after rebooting there isn't a bootable disk. When I enter the early startup menu, only the floppy drives are shown as bootable devices. So what can I do to make the computer boot from the HD?

[HyAmi]

Thanks for the replies!

I gave it another try today, and it seems like it's a odd jumpersetting problem. For my configuration, there are 3 possible methods to make the jumper settings:
1. Master
2. Master with special settings for well eh, something
3. Single drive

1 gives me most problems. Recognisable in hdtoolbox etc. This was the setting I was using.
2 works, but it first waits for the 30 second timeout before it boots. Annoying!
3 works very quick. But I'd like to add a cdrom drive, which seems difficult with a single drive config. But hey, I'll give it a try!

Oh BTW, I do have kickstart v40.068, so that part should be fine.