About Amiga SYS

[Darrin]

I'm having major problems installing AmigaSYS on my A4000D.

I fixed the error with the installer failing and prompting for a mysterious "E" drive by removing the OS3.9 ROM updates from my Deneb Flash ROM,

However, now when I try and boot from the AmigaSYS "SYSTEM" drive for the first time I get an AmigaDOS screen with the error:

Error in command name
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I've used the early startup to boot from it and I've rearrange the boot priorities.

Everything is unpacked to the drive correctly and I can see everything when I boot from my OS3.9 boot drive.  Is this anything to do with it being on a large SFS partition and not a small FSF partition?

[Darrin]

@ Cicero

Thnaks for sharing your experience.

I have it unpacked on a 80GB Seagate drive split into 3 x 25GB partitions (SDH0, SDH1 and SDH2).  Only the first partition is bootable (SDH0) and I have renamed it on Amiga Workbench as "SYSTEM".  The LHA file unpacked and changed the drive icon, installed all the draws (Devs, MUI, Emulators, etc) and has taken up 75.4MB.  If I show all icons then I can also view the other system draws (S, libs, etc).

:-(

[Darrin]

I just went into the startup sequence and added a few ECHO "" commands to track down where it is failing.

I think the startup-sequence file included in the package is either wrong or corrupt.

I can get it to run through the initial commands:

CLS
Cd system:intall/c
Mass T: RAM
Mass env: RAM
Mass Install System:Install
Mass IC: system:install/c
Mass PR: system:install/programs
TC:Setpatch Quiet

I then get the first lineof the option screen:
echo " o------------------------------------------------o"
and then it fails because the next echo command is "too long"

This seems to be because the Echo command is missing the second set of quotation marks and the following lines seem garbled.

Here's how the startup sequence continues from the fail point:

Echo " |                   Welcome in
[0;32;40mAmigaSYS 4
[0m
Echo " o------------------------------------------------o"
Echo " |                                                |"
Echo " |
[0;32;43mhttp://amigasys.extra.hu
[0m
Echo " |                                                |"
Echo " o------------------------------------------------o"
Echo " |                                                |"
Echo " |
[1mWorkbench 3.0/3.1/AF3.1 Floppy>
[0m
Echo " | ----------------------------        |"
Echo " | o Workbench C=3.0= Commodore Workbench 3.0 - Workbench & Extras Disk.    "

etc

now, if I "remark out" the offending Echo commands and the [1m and [0m lines it then fails on the:

Set Loader `IC:RequestChoice "amigaSYS.... etc"

The archive was unpacked on the A4000 using the LHA archive tool included in OS3.9.

[Darrin]

Something is really screwy now.

I Quick formated the SYSTEM partition to wipe it clean.  Downloaded the LHA again from the AmigaSYS website using the A4000 and IBrowse (not the PC this time) and placed the archive directly into the SYSTEM drive.  Unpacked the LHA directly into the SYSTEM drive using the OS3.9 LHA utility and rebooted.

I used early startup to select the SYSTEM drive as the boot device and gos an AMigaDOS screens with a system request box:

Please insert volume
EdidindndififMUMUcocoigigsssn
in any drive

WTF???

[Darrin]

another attempt:

This time I goto to the AmigaDOS screen and then this message:

E: Unknown command
E failed returncode 10
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Something is very wrong and I'm starting to think it's my hard drive...

[Darrin]

OK, I'm close.  now I get half of the install screen (where you pick what disks you're going to use to provide the missing Workbench files), but it keeps failing with "argument too long" errors which seem to be associated with the echo commands.

Could somebody please email me a working startup-sequence for the AmigaSYS AGA installation because nomatter how many ways or times I unpack this LHA, mine seems to be buggered (either that or there's something in my setup that it doesn't like).