A2000 Formatted HELP!

[iamaboringperson]

hmmm..
Never installed 1.3 to the HDD before, but I'll see what I can do.
You first need to create partitions on the HDD, using 'HDToolBox'
Then after a reboot, you will see an Icon for you new partition(s), all you should need to do then is select the icon, and select 'Initiallise' from one of the menu's, and after a few  "Are you sure?" questions it will format.
This is the part I might have trouble with:
In theory you should be able to drag the icons accross from the disks to the HDD, or at least under 2.04 and higher you can, since there are files on those disks that are hidden to you, and can only be revealed with either 2.0 and higher or using the CLI.
See if there is an installer script on one of your disks, if not you may have to resort to the Shell.
:-)

[iamaboringperson]

Oh dear...

The A2091 is the best SCSI Controller card that you can get for an Amiga 2000.

Why? According to whom? Because I have a GVP card, and it works fine in my machine!

[iamaboringperson]

Make sure your Workbench partition is bootable by entering:
1> install DH0:

I have a problem with that statement.
It's for floppies! You do not need to install a bootblock to get a HDD to boot on the Amiga!!

[iamaboringperson]

@N7VQM
What you might be thinking about are IDE drives.
Don't low-level format an IDE drive.
With SCSI drives it should be fine, but it is only needed once.
Once low-level formatted, you can use it on any computer.

[iamaboringperson]

Okay, if you don't get a disk icon, it's not formated or partitioned for the Amiga.
One thing that you must remember is that 'DH0:' is a name that you might give the partition.
You can give you partitions whatever name you desire.
Also don't type the '1>' part! it isn't part of the command.
You need to find HDToolBox, or another HDD partitioning utility(GVP have their own). and first create a partition.
Once you have a partition, you will see an icon for it - with a name that begins with the name you gave the partition.
Then you may format it, and after copy what you want to it.

[iamaboringperson]

Boot on 1.3 disk, hit right Amiga and letter"E", hit return (created Ram Disk) copied WB disk onto Ram Disk, ejected WB disk,

I don't see what need there is to copy the WB disk tor RAM:
Don't do that.

I chose SCSI and then 'automatic installation' i got an error message 'can't open gvpscsi.device.

'gvpscsi.device' should be located in the ROM of your accelerator card.
Perhaps you have the wrong device number? or you are out of memory, since you have copied so much to the RAM: disk.

Should I be able to boot from the GVP disk and create partition w/o a prob?

From my memory - you should be able to boot from that disk with out a problem.

I also tried copying both the WB disk and GVP disk to ram disk then inserted WB disk again.

May I just ask why you feel the need to do that? What are you thinking?

Try booting from the GVP disk.
Don't copy things to RAM disk when there is no need.
Try some of the configuration display utils on the disk.

Do you have a manual for the card?

[iamaboringperson]

What I want to know is why are so many people coming up with this 'install' crap for HDD's anyway? Which AmigaDOS manual makes that suggestion?