OS 3.9 installation issues

[dschallock]

At this point you've booted off the ERD with the 3.9 CD in the drive and gotten the "Boing ball" background screen and whatnot, correct?  Here's where you'd prep a partition with HDToolbox, if you haven't already, and start the install.  Go go go!  

3.9 has been installed successfully, along with the internet software and the cdrom software.

I am loading up the cd with the boingbags now....

[dschallock]

I'm backing up the workbench partition before installing anything else so I have a good save point in this game.

[dschallock]

well it wont let me to the boingbag1 install because of the "xad missing password" error.
I copied the xad key file you gave me to my S drive and tried again but it didn't make a difference.

[dschallock]

Gah.

Drop down to a command line and type:

version xadmaster.library full

Post the output.

[dschallock]

Okay, that's an old version, but try the fix suggested in this post, instead:

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=31637

Copy the entire contents of the BoingBag archive from the CD into either RAM: or onto your hard drive somewhere, and run it from there.  Keep the 3.9 CD in the drive.

I'm already running it from another partition.  I could try RAM if you thought that was worth a try?

[dschallock]

same results running from Ram.

moving to second option.

its asking for a password to extract that one file (xadmaster.library)
do you know what that password is?

[dschallock]

well I had to follow what the other post said because nothing was working.

Basically I typed
xadunfile AmigaOS-Update "" PASSWORD=####### (I edited out the password just in case there is something wrong with posting it.)

And it worked in that it unpacked everything into the same directory but it still won't install with the installer.  It still says its missing the xad password and aborts.

I know this boingbag1 works for alot of people, yourself included.  In fact I watched it work on your video.  I'm not sure what I've done different.

[dschallock]

Do you have the 3.9 CD in the drive?  Is it accessible?

yes sir! in the drive.

[dschallock]

Mike you are amazing  and I owe you a huge debt for getting me over the first major hurdle. We have 3.9 Installed.

[dschallock]

Just to keep this message afloat to anyone with a magic trick. I am now stuck una let to install the first being bag. I have an original 3.9 disk (the pinkish one) and a fresh install of 3.9. I am unable to install the first boingbag because it fails citing xad missing password. It does read my cd in the drive and it does verify it is there,  I know this because if I take the disk out it says it can't verify the 3.9. I put it back in and it wants to install business it hits the xad error. I have manually extracted the xadmaster. Library from boingbag1 using unarch and a password supplied on eab  message board. It works and I can get the file but that doesn't fix the issue.  Following another post on eab I extracted the whole amigaos-update  file into the same directory and the boingbag  and it's installer  but same results.  If someone knows another trick (I can't be the only one who had this issue)  please let me know.
Thank you!

[dschallock]

What tool are you using to extract the Boing Bag archives initially?

Are you getting a directory that matches my screenshot from this post?  How far does it get from when you click on "Installation" do you get the error?

Hi Mike,
I re-did the boing process today and made sure I:
1) re-downloaded boingbag1 from the link you provided me.
2) unarchived using winrar and exacted to windows desktop


3) Then I burned the extracted folders to CD.


4) and then I copied to Ram on my hard drive and attempted to install.

Here is a video I shot of the attempted install so you could see the specifics.

Unfortunately the boingbag1 did not install citing the same xad password issue.

[dschallock]

I wish H&P or someone still supported BB1 and 2.  Seems like I'm missing something obvious or crucial or both.

[dschallock]

Gah.  Probably not helpful but there's this thread:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=13274

(see the last comment where he says it worked from him with Dopus4 but not 5)  (I would try just using straight LHA at the command line)

Try to re-download BB1 and unarchive it with LHA (into RAM:) rather than WinRAR?

Grasping for straws, now.  Go to that meeting tomorrow!  

I think their problem is different Mike.  They were getting fatal errors on line 3.  This xad password issue seems pretty specific.  What's crazy is I can't seem to find anyone on a search who had the same issues as me with Boingbag1 anyway.  Which makes me think I have something wrong with my setup or some component somewhere.

[dschallock]

Copy the entire contents of the CD to a hard drive partition, and assign it there with the same name as the CD? So it can do its verification against the files there instead of a disc?

Yea,  thats a good idea.  I assume you mean the 3.9 disk.  Yea I'll try that now.

[dschallock]

Well that was a good try. It took a long time to copy the contents of the CD to the HD.  I assigned AmigaOS3.9 to the directory that copied the contents to.  I ran the boingbag1  installation script,  it had no apparent problem with my assign,  but alas it came up with the same xad password error.
So about that other idea where I unpack and repack without the password...  I already have the AmigaOS update file unpacked. How would I repack it?
Another thought is to manually install the unpacked components if there is a list somewhere of what is supposed to be done.  Is this a feasible idea?

[dschallock]

Are you guys still at it? Get some rest...

BTW, I vote for a installer problem.

M

I've tried with the version of installer that comes with 3.9 and the version that comes inside the boingbag1 release.  I haven't checked to see in the version of installer in boingbag2 is different or if it would yield different results. Is that what you mean but installer problem?  The version of installer?