Installing ClassicWB on a CF card through UAE

[ami_junki]

Hi guys, I finally have my A1200 here with the IDE-CF adapter, I bought a 1 gb CF card and now I would like to install ClassicWB onto it so I can use it in the A1200.  I was thinking of doing this through UAE on my macbook but I am not 100% sure about how to go about doing this, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Timo

[stefcep2]

being a macbook will make it harder to find others that did this.  you should probably try here: http://eab.abime.net

I did it on my A1200, but thats not a macbook.  Maybe you could get a PCMCIA-CF adaptor if you don't want to open the macbook.  Else you would need to attach the CF adaptor to the IDE ribbon cable or use a second IDE interface if your macbook has it.  I actually preferred to install my own workbench, because I prefer to have the software tools that I need and know how to use, and more importantly an OS without the hacks that can result in guru's.  Yes it takes alittle longer but in the end you end up with a leaner, more functional Amiga thats entirely your own.

[mfilos]

The way I did it on my A600 was the following:
- Run UAE with adding the CF card as Hard Disk (My Laptop had CF reader)
- Run HDToolbox from WB (I used 3.1 WB)
- Partition and Format the CF Card - Don't forget to make it Bootable
- CF Disk is ready to be used

I guess the following steps would be the following:
- Copy the System.zip (Of the distribution of ClassicWB of your choice) to the CF from WB
- Make the Disk from the ADF that ClassicWB provides and boot it, or just boot the ADF through UAE's DF0:
- Use your Original WB 3.1 disk or ADF for ClassicWB to continue
- blah blah blah
- Your ClassicWB on CF is ready
- You take off the CF and put it inside the real A1200

Have fun

P.S. Don't forget that the CF cards have a limited read/write cycle life so booting every day from the CF and running intense reading/writing will make your CF card useless in some months...

Cheers

[Retrofan]

Hi:
Just reading what you say about limited write/read life of CF cards, I've been interested and have find this:
http://photo.net/digital-camera-forum/00DcKV

[Cammy]

It's a myth! People need to stop worrying or even considering that their CF card is going to stop working or run out of space when using it in an Amiga. The people who say they run out are just quoting bullcrap from other uninformed people who don't know anything about the AmigaOS. It doesn't constantly write to the hard drive like some OSs do, and even when a block in the CF card has been written to the maximum number of times, it becomes unavailable, so the CF card doesn't become unusable, the capacity just slowly decreases over many, many, many, many years of usage.

[Khephren]

Yep, most of the CF cards I own give lifetime guarantees, and write cycle guarantee at 100,000+ and they are old. A modern card will give you 1m writes. Of course, yours might last well beyond this.

Also, they have 'wear level' tech which stops the same cell being written to over and over.

To put this in perspective, if you sat there and clicked 'write to cell' once a second for 24 hours, that would still only be 86,400 writes.

[ElPolloDiabl]

This question comes up a lot, do a search for it on these forums.

Hey, why doesn't someone write up a guide and put it online?