What have you put into your custom kickstart?

[Johan Samuelsson]

* Don't let this thread become a legal blah blah thread *

I am going to play around a make my own custom Kickstart 3.9, i've bought the needed roms and I am currently waiting for my eprom programmer to arrive and I am reading up on what is possible to include.

So far I'll include a custom boot logo (blizkick module written by a friend).
I'll also try to make it abla to boot from a compact flash card. That's about it currently apart from the obvious 3.9 kickstart modules.

What have you put into your custom kickstart?
How?
Ideas?
Advice?

[AMC258]

I've been waiting anxiously for someone to do this.  Until I ordered OS4 that is...

[pyrre]

I would like to include the DIR command.
I really hate when I boot from a floppy or HD that do not have the DIR command in the C folder.
I don't know any way around it. (I.E. to display a directory tree without the DIR command)

And that annoys me ALOT

[AMC258]

I have had hard drive crashes where I have to boot from *no device* (yes you can do this) and try and recover.  DIR, and COPY, and maybe a few others are NECESSARY in the ROM!

[pan1k]

Cross you fingers. Maybe I can offer a service like this ... burning custom kickstart roms and minimig pics... :idea:

[weirdami]

is this legal?

 :-P

[AMC258]

Not to sell them independantly.  But, I see no reason why someone who owns a 3.9 CD and only uses a 3.9 ROM in the one machine running the installation from that 3.9 CD would be breaking the law.

[yorgle]

Kinda makes me think of another question; Since everyone openly distributed Workbench disks - like their games were on it, etc.  Is it legal to redistribute the contents of the Workbench disk?  eg; Fonts?

In the case, I imagine you'd create a read-only tiny workbench disk in your ROM with the bare essentials on it; DIR, COPY, perhaps LOADWB?  

[AMC258]

The only reason to include LoadWB would be to show off to peecee users.  On 3.9 though it would not work.  You cannot LoadWB 3.9 without loading some libraries (I HATE that).  IIRC, even the HDToolBox from 3.9 won't run without some libraries loaded.

I don't believe you'd fit a usable Workbench disk on a kick ROM.  You'd have to pull a bunch of other strings like mounting it to make it useful.  Not practical on a kick ROM.  That's where booting to a flash ROM or some other solid state drive is ideal.  Even a ROM Workbench disk (full 3.9 install!) on a card would be GREAT.  But goal #1 of the 3.9 ROM for me would be eliminating the boot-reboot.  My A3000UX will not boot that way.  I actually have to power up all my hard drives and wait 5 mins or so before powering on the A3000 or it will either reboot-reboot-reboot forever, or I get a insert disk animation.  Either way, it's hell on the RAID array!

[countzero]

you can't put anything you want in the rom. it must be rommable, and must have been converted into a module. I'm afraid you're limited to what you'll find in the boing bag Rom updates and blizkick modules.

No dir, no LoadWB.

[Johan Samuelsson]

I thought everything that could be made resident would be useable on the rom?
What about devices? Shouldn't they work?

[Johan Samuelsson]

BTW, how come people haven't written more cool blizkick mods then?

[yorgle]

countzero:

I wasn't thinking that it be integrated with the Kickstart ROM image itself, but next to it, if you will, on the ROM, or on another ROM.

I was thinking of it like;  you set up a RAM or RAD disk, or just somehow format a floppy with only say, 100k of space... now take a disk image of that, store it in a ROM and then mount that as a RAM: or RAD: disk image.

I know that you can't just take 'DIR' and throw it in the ROM next to the other ROM resources...