OS 3.1 command help please!

[save2600]

Help please, I think I've turned into an AmigaTard® as of late!

I'm trying to create a 3.1 Workbench boot disk on a vanilla 1200 and am having problems getting the Path and Assign commands to work.

Specifically: I am trying to get 3.1, when it says: "can't find devs:kickstarts" to KNOW where it is on a partition on a HD. AND I'd like 3.1 to know that my copy of WHDLoad is on the HD as well.

Editing WB3.1's startup-sequence, I can't get the Path command to do anything correct, nor the Assign command. Not sure if both are needed, or just one.

I've tried so many different options to no avail. Please help!

[save2600]

3.1 Boot disk from floppy. System boots and 3.1 sees all my partitions.

DH0:Devs does indeed have a directory called Kickstarts...

[save2600]

Thanks guys, Looks like that did the trick - for the most part.

But I am now getting 'can't allocate ShadowMem' on most of the games  :-(


@ Michael,

Long story, but I'm trying to do the multi-boot thing because this A1200 has an 020 and a 10gb HD w/ no fast ram. OS3.9 was preinstalled on DH0 and all partitions are in place. Don't want to mess up 3.9. Sooner or later,  will add fast ram and/or accelerator someday.

[save2600]

I thought about doing just that... adding 3.1 to my other partition, BUT... the way the HD was partitioned is as such:

DH0: 200mb
DH1: 9gb

:-(  

So... I figured I wouldn't be able to boot 3.1 from that large of a partition without some other patches involved (ie: that >4gb barrier) . See... right now, leaving the system intact, when OS3.9 loads, it loads all the patches and then resets the computer. It is at that point that I stick the 3.1 disk in and all seems good. My partitions are recognised and I can play some of the WHDload games. OF course, booting straight from 3.1, I loose DH1.

Configuring hassle aside, I don't think booting this system from floppy is all that bad. I just need to figure out why most of these games give me the error of 'can't find expmem' or 'can't allocate shadowmem' - or whatever.

For example, 2mb chip ram should run Pinball Fantasies/Pinball Dreams just fine. But WHDLoad is now giving me these memory errors.

OF curiosity, my chip mem is really low upon booting OS3.1. It's something like 1.3mb. And I'm not in hi-res or too many colours or anything like that. I guess I am patching much of OS3.9's goodies, but even on my other systems running OS3.9, chip mem is around 1.8mb.