AmigaOS Workbench 3.9 install video

[giZmo350]

Nice vids Mike! I keep wondering how in the world I'll be able to create that Emergency Boot Disk when I go to install OS3.9 with my Blizzz 060 on an IDE Buddha Flash card with a clean CF card! :confused:

BTW, when do you sleep?

[giZmo350]

Does the Buddha auto-detect?  Can HDToolbox see it without running any additional patches or drivers?  You may need to put them on the disk, if it does.

Yea, that's the part I'm not sure of...

The first Emergency Boot Disk I created was on a plain system just running a fresh install of 3.1, and it worked fine.

Cool, I should be able to manage that from myA1200 then!

I thought it was interesting (and kind of neat) that it copied the rtg.library and Spectrum settings directly from my live system.

I noticed you were surprised by that!

And last night I slept between 4am and 9am, then came back to work.  FML!  

NEED SLEEPY!

[giZmo350]

Thanks for checking into that! It did come with an install disk but I haven't checked to see what is on it yet... maybe I can add whatever driver is on it to the EBD. Is the EBD versatile enough that I would be able to put the Blizz drivers on it too? That would be cool. I know this is going to be a big enough project that I'm going to document it all... with pics! :roflmao:

[giZmo350]

You could probably use a second disk, if  you needed?

You can create an EBD set of multiple disks? Running the install from the EBD would know if you needed more than one disk (would prompt for a 2nd disk)?

Point of the EBD is to just get your system to the point  where it can run HDToolbox to prep the drive and then run the install  script from the CD, pretty much.  

Yea, that much I know...  
I have all the software I need for everything... I should prep an EBD in advance just to check it all out & see how much I can get on a disk - I can do that tomorrow! Yeah!

[giZmo350]

You'd have to fake it out, and edit the startup script to run a command from a second disk, but I don't see why it couldn't work.  Even easier if you have two disk drives.  

Got two drives! Geeeze, I don't know why I don't think of things like this... I used "fake out" DOS scripts to do ANYTHING back in the day!

Here's a screenshot of the startup-sequence on the EBD.  You can see halfway down (just above the Resident command) where it asks for something off the OS3.9 CD.  Which is why it won't boot completely off this disk unless that CD is in the drive.  Ah-ha!  LOL  

:lol: YUP!