ami-pc I having problems linking my a600 to a pc. Help!

[amimamator]

I've recently bought the AMI-PC kit (cable, floppy and cd rom).
The problem I have is this;

I run the pc2amres.exe on my pc.
When I try to run the program "mountPC4KS3" on the Amiga I get the following message in a new window.
 
can't open prefs/en-archive/sys/def_disk.info for input object not found.
can't open prefs/en-archive/sys/def_pc.info for input object not found.
ERROR: Device 'PC:' already mounted.
Can't open def_disk2.info for input - object not found.
 
No 'PC' icon appears on the desktop of the Amiga (and I always run the pc2amres.exe program on the PC first).

I've tried this with 2 amiga computers and 2 dirfferent PC's and still no joy.
It's as if 2 or 3 files that should be on my amiga in the prefs folder are not there.
Do you have any idea what the problem could be or do you know anyone who would.
Thanks for you time.
amimamator

[AndyFC]

What Kickstart and OS versions are you running on your A600? The exe file name mountpc4ks3 is probably an abbreviation of 'Mount PC for Kickstart 3', so if you are running Workbench 2.05 (standard with an A600) it probably has missing files.

I have the Weird Science Network PC kit, which I imagine is similar, and I understood that this was originally only sold for A1200 or A4000 (which had kickstart/workbench 3.x as standard).

Where are you running mountpc4ks3.exe from? If you boot to workbench and then run the programme from another floppy, or a CD, is there an install routine you need to run first, which will copy the right files to your workbench disk, or HD?

As I recall on the Weird Science version, there was a programme on the CD which made a new Amiga boot floppy disk, so it may be worth running that and booting from it.

[amimamator]

Thanks for the reply.

The PC operating system is windows 2000, the Amiga operating system is work bench 3.1
Kickstart version 37.300
Workbench version 40.42.

I've run the programme from both the a600's hard drive and the floppy to no avail!

I'm going to try it with a A1200 tomorrow at work.

It still seems to me that some files are not in the prefs draw that it needs to run.

Where did you get the weird science kit from?

All the best.

Amimamator.

[orange]

are you sure it can run on win2k? it sounds suspiciously similar to amiga2pc program from aminet and that one runs only on win98/dos

[AndyFC]

When you ran it from floppy, did you actually boot from the floppy, or put the disk in after your HD had booted to Workbench? This makes a difference as it determines the SYS: drive which paths such as prefs will be determined from, so if you boot from HD and then load a programme from floppy, the paths for Prefs, S:, C: etc will still be to the HD, not the floppy. IIRC they assign to the boot device as default.

Sorry if you know this already.

I got my kit from Weird Science (www.weirdscience.co.uk), which sadly seems to be a VERY pale shade of what it was 10 years ago (when I got the kit). I used to be at Uni in Loughborough which was about 20 mins drive from their showroom.

[AndyFC]

That'll teach me to mis-use the back button in IE.

[AndyFC]

How did it go on the A1200? Where is it that you work which still uses Amigas?

[amimamator]

Nope.
Still same problem with the a1200.
Maybe this program only works with 98/95.

This is a pain in the butt because there was nothing in the info for the program that said it was just for 95/98!

Thanks again.

I'll check out wiered science!