Which came first? The chicken or the egg?

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It appears that almost nothing works with workbench 1.3.  I have 3.1.  But I can't get it onto the machine.  I can't write amiga floppies.  So I copied the files to a usb thumb drive.  Deneb won't install it's virtual drive so I can't install it.  (it's in rescue mode and the boot menu doesn't look like it should)  So the thumb drive doesn't work.  So I burned a CD.  But buddha refuses to mount the drive.  No network.  No usb.  No CDs.  Maybe I can type in all the bytes?

Any ideas on how I can get 3.1 roms into the buddha's flash rom and boot from 3.1 so everything starts working?

brian

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That would require that I have a working UAE.  ;-)  64-bit ubuntu isn't playing nice.  

As it turns out, I happened to have 3.1 roms in my 600.  I put them in the 2000 which made the deneb happy.  But nothing will work without a matching 3.1 os.

My next angle will be to attach a floppy drive to my ubuntu box and try cross-dos.  I used to have a usb floppy drive, but I can't find it.

Can anyone tell me why the buddha is happy to boot off of an ide disk, but refuses to acknowledge an ide cdrom?

brian

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bloodline wrote:

blanning wrote:

Can anyone tell me why the buddha is happy to boot off of an ide disk, but refuses to acknowledge an ide cdrom?

brian

ATAPI

Can you elaborate?

By the way, did anyone know that XP can't format 720k floppy disks?   :roll:

brian

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Could someone post what their buddha_atapi.device entry looks like in devs:mountlist?  thanks.

brian

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MozzerFan wrote:

Could someone post what their buddha_atapi.device entry looks like in devs:mountlist? thanks.

Dont have a buddha myself,but if your CDROM is connected as a slave behind your harddisk, then the following should be in the CD0 mountlist:

device="buddha_atapi.device"
unit=1

If it still doesn't mount the device, there's a utility that comes with the buddha install disk called FindDevice.
Try to run that, to see if it finds the CDROM.

ok, I added the mountlist entry.  The cdrom is master, the hard drive is slave.  So I told it unit=0.

mount cd0: seems to work with no errors

dir cd0: produces:

count not get information for cd0:

FindDevice recognizes the drive.  I click "use", but it doesn't seem to do anything.

any ideas?

brian

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MozzerFan wrote:
BTW did you install the buddha software before or after you added the cdrom to your system. If you installed it before adding the cdrom, the mountfile may not have been installed correctly. In that case, try to reinstall the software.

Thanks.  I went the winuae route and things are happy once again.  The buddha install disk I have is corrupt.  No big deal though.  I should have the deneb/usb drive working again shortly.  Thanks to everyone for the help.

brian