From emulation to real hardware

[sim085]

Hi,

I was wondering; if I create my setup with WinUAE on my laptop, can I then transfer this setup to the CF card?

In other words; if the setup is not created directly on the CF card but directly on my PC then how can I move my setup on the CF card (or other external hard drive) so that I can access my setup on the real hardware?

Is it possible?

Regards,
Sim085

[motorollin]

Yes I believe it is possible. Once it is set up in UAE, just mount the CF card, partition it, and copy the Workbench installation from the boot partition in UAE on to the CF card. You obviously need to make sure that any necessary drivers, software or libraries for your real Amiga are installed.

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moto

[sim085]

You obviously need to make sure that any necessary drivers, software or libraries for your real Amiga are installed.

What do you mean by this? For example if I install Workbench 3.1 on a CF card then how can I know which drivers my real Amiga is using?

[motorollin]

What do you mean by this? For example if I install Workbench 3.1 on a CF card then how can I know which drivers my real Amiga is using?

Sorry, I wasn't very clear on this. I meant that if you have a graphics card, accelerator, network card etc in your real Amiga, these will need to be installed on the transferred system. Particularly important are the 68040 or 68060 libraries if you have one of these cards. If you're using a stock machine then there should be no need to modify the installed software at all AFAIK.

Edit-
Probably te safest way to copy the system is through the shell:

copy sys:#? cf0: all clone

where cf0 is the device name of the compact flash card.

[sim085]

copy sys:#? cf0: all clone

mmmm .. I think I understand.

I mount the CF card (already partitioned) and then start my setup (loaded from my laptop). I then ender the above command so that all files on my laptop (related to the setup) are moved to the CF card.

Right? What if I have more then one partition on the CF card?

[motorollin]

mmmm .. I think I understand.

I mount the CF card (already partitioned) and then start my setup (loaded from my laptop). I then ender the above command so that all files on my laptop (related to the setup) are moved to the CF card.

Right? What if I have more then one partition on the CF card?

Yes, you add the CF card as a hard drive to UAE, boot UAE from your already installed system, then type that command in to the shell. If you have more than one partition then you just replace cf0 with the name of whichever partition you want the files to end up on.

[sim085]

Thanks I'll try that