A2000 Formatted HELP!

[Jope]

Ok, once you have the HD formatted, you need to boot from the WB floppy disk, open it and go into the shell.

Then say:

copy sys: dh0: all clone

of course replace dh0: with the label or devicename of your hard disk.

You can then reboot and copy the extras disk over,
copy df0: sys: all clone

(a reboot is a good idea, because then the copy command will be loaded from the HD. You can of course assign C: to dh0:c any time, but a reboot is easier here if you're new to Amigas)

PS. Drag 'n drop installing isn't as common outside the Mac world as you might imagine.

Many Amiga software is installable with a drag 'n drop, but many times you need to at least copy a few libraries by hand if you don't want to use installers.

OS2.0 and forward lets you view the iconless files as well on the disk, so you can also drag 'n drop install the OS if you really insist. ;-) It's best to use an installer, though, with the newer AmigaOS versions.

[edit: seems I'm a bit late, but my instructions don't have typographical or factual errors in them! ;-)]

[Jope]

about not bootable...

try:

install workbench:

You do *NOT* install hard drives. The Amiga *CAN* use bootblocks on hard drives, but those are never ever used and the bootblock is not needed in order to boot from the partition.

To make a hard drive partition bootable, you set it to be bootable in a partition editing tool.

[Jope]

Steady wrote:
Yes you do!

Without the install command, the boot block of the Workbench partition will not be able to boot. This code is REQUIRED on any bootable partition, be that floppy disk, hard disk or otherwise.

The only thing that may be a prob there, is optimising the startup-sequence for harddrive use. I think C= put a hard drive startup-sequence for use, but since I can't remember the details, I cannot advise further on this.

It is amazing how being at work can make your responses overly formal.  :-o

Please don't feed misinformation to those who need help, if you don't know what you're talking about.

1) installing hard drive partitions isn't necessary, the bootable bit in the RDB is for that
2) you don't need to do anything to the startup-sequence, if the hd controller is autobooting (which it is in this case)

I'm at home, so I can be as informal as I like.

[Jope]

ddogg66 wrote:
"output directory not found" is the message I get. I titled my previously untitled disk "workbench" and have replaced all occurences of "DH0" to "workbench" .

Here is where I am: I have the system booted from the 1.3 WB disk and have my HD now mounted (named "workbench") and a ram disk mounted (3 disks mounted)
So, what do I do now? I'm tempted to drop the WB disk in my "workbench" disk. Will this work or MUST I use the CLI window? If I must use the CLI window, I've tried all the previously mentioned command lines but none seem to do the job.
Let's start over. I have 3 mounted disks and no bootable partition ( i only have one partition it seems) So where to now? How to copy the full WB disk to HD?

Thanks again all!! 8-)

Ok, try

copy sys: dh0: all

If you drop the wb disk icon on your hd disk icon, it won't work. The default tool for disks is sys:system/diskcopy, which makes track for track copies -> won't succeed, because your hard drive's geometry is very different to the floppy's geometry.

The Shell is the only way for an out of the box 1.3, I'm afraid.