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Hello there,  Steve here currently a tech support guy at CCLOnline.com

Got talking about my old A600 at work today (which is still boxed and in the loft)that I've had since I was 10, (20 now) and got talking about how I always wanted a HDD in it etc and one of the guys shouted "The 600 has an onboard IDE controller for a 2.5 Drive" Obviously I retorted with "Bol**ks"

Turns out it's true.. so basically I've come here to pick the brains of you humble residents of Amiga.org Which if you don't mind I will do in this topic (so as not to go on a posting spree)

Firstly a couple of questions... I've ordered my IDE cable so I can connect a lappy drive to it.

Now for the tricky things..

1: Which OS can I install without purchasing a CD Rom drive for it. Basically it's bog standard apart from having a 40GB  Laptop drive in it.

2: Once i've got an OS installed on it, what else can I do with it?

Please don't all reply at once hardy har har. :-o

[panicacid]

Back? Hell I never left.. *Throws Cannon Fodder Disk Onto the table* That bad boy has been in my pocket since I was 9, Thats how oldskool I am lol.


I was originally looking at that site but it doesn't explain how to go about installing the OS after installing the drive.
Basically I would like some one to draw in crayon what I gota do to get it booting off the disk and loading the OS, or workbench if I can get it to boot workbench off the drive I'll be happy, I could finally install all those demo's I have on disks that came with Amiga mags and install Valhalla again and actually SAVE ha.

Thanks for the quick reply.

[panicacid]

Yeah been looking at that, but 3.1 won't support my laptop HDD will it? Is there no way I can get 4 on there without a CD? can I make an image of the os 4 disk and put it on the HDD or am I just way ahead of Amiga's time?

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Ah kk, the reason I thaught that is....

"You can use any 2.5 inch hard drive you want in the Amiga 600. You will however need a cable that fits the narrow 2.5 inch IDE connector. The hard drive also gets power through this connector. Keep in mind that the Amiga OS is very memory efficient. A 500 to 1000 MByte hard drive will suffice easily. If you want to install other operating systems like Linux or MacOS, too, you will however need a larger disk. If the hard disk you plan to use is larger than 4 GB, you will need at least Amiga OS 3.5 (3.1 will only work with some patches)."

Taken from the amiga600.de site....

[panicacid]

Ah, it's all slowly starting to make sence.. Kinda' I've bookmarked all the pages, and was shocked to find that Paul, the guy who created the workbench i'm going to install died at 27....


I'll get the drive installed hopefully Wednesday when this cable turns up, you'll probably hear from me then no doubt.

I prefered the look of the OS to the workbench, I'll probably just try that 3.1 after the workbench is on, surely it can't be that hard *rolls eyes* I've still got a 600 page book on "Coding in Amiga Basic" if that will help me any... Came with the Amiga .