Amix: hard drive too big?

[nishtek]

I recommend that you get a 2nd hard disk - install the Amix image to it (aka "tape" drive).  That 240mb is plenty as the cpio file is <200mb.
Then using WB 3.1 Hard disk Tools partition your 4 GB hard disk as follows:
900MB amiga os partition, 1.1gb amiga os, 1gb amiga os, 1gb amiga os.  before exiting, purposely delete the 900MB amiga os partition.  this partition will host the Amix install.  Boot up with Amix Boot & then insert Amix_rootv2 disk.  The install script is picky about 1gb partitions hence why i recommended you make it 900mb. (also why ur partitions may be way off).
The script should create for you:
1 Unix Root   780 MB
2 Swap      100 MB
3 Boot      2 MB
4 Extra       whatever remains MB

This works on my Amiga 2000, 68030, 2091 SCSI controller.
The script did not work at all on my Amiga 3000 (but it didnt matter that much as i did the installation on A2000)... i dunno if anyone was able to get it to work on A3000....

[nishtek]

Hey I had the same problem on Amiga 3000 installation.  Never got it to work.  Spend 10+ hours on that - I gave up on A3000, as I got it installed via my Amiga 2000.
If you get errors like:
SC_ADD failed
swap: Invalid Argument
SC_REMOVE failed
swap: Not enough space
rdb: partition start and length blocks must lie on cylinder boundary
Then you must re-partition.
if you don't then that script will still error out.

[nishtek]

You must create all partitiosn to fill up the drive.
eg 900, 1.3, 1.1, 1.0 gb...  once done all of them should be amiga os partitioned...  then delete the first partition 900 mb in my example - and boot using disk.  amix will look for available partition space findign the 900mb one and this way you isntal to that... this should solve the problem and the freaky partition errors you're getting.
btw my 2091 controller has 7.0 roms and the WD SCSI -08 chip (ordering some for another fellow email if interested in that SCSI rev 8 chip).