Bare Basics to Create Boot disk.

[XDelusion]

I used to know the answer to this back in the 90's, but it's been so long...

Can some one provide me with a bare basic list of software needed to be on a disk in order to make it bootable?

Thankx in advance!

[mousehouse]

Do you mean a floppy disk or hard drive? AFAIK for a floppy you just do "install df0:" in the shell after which te floppy will boot into amigashell. For a hard disk you set the Bootable flag in the RDB using HDtoolbox or a similar tool...

[psxphill]

AFAIK for a floppy you just do "install df0:" in the shell after which te floppy will boot into amigashell.

Then create a directory called S and inside it create startup-sequence. Put whatever you want in there.
 
loadwb starts workbench
endcli closes the window

[asymetrix]

For floppy type in shell:

put disk in internal drive,

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Format Drive DF0: Name "Your Disk Name" NOICONS FFS QUICK

Install DF0:
MakeDir DF0:Libs DF0:S DF0:C

copy runme to DF0:

echo runme > DF0:S/Startup-Sequence



<- this stage boot disk will run program runme, with runme located at df0: ->


if after runme has finished you want to go to minimal workbench use at end of script, put loadwb in df0:C.


echo LoadWB >> DF0:S/Startup-Sequence


If you want program to run AND workbench in background running same time, use run command in echo lines:

echo run runme > DF0:S/Startup-Sequence
echo run LoadWB >> DF0:S/Startup-Sequence


<- so it now looks like this  ->

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Format Drive DF0: Name "Your Disk Name" NOICONS FFS QUICK

Install DF0:
MakeDir DF0:Libs DF0:S DF0:C

copy runme to DF0:

echo runme > DF0:S/Startup-Sequence
echo LoadWB >> DF0:S/Startup-Sequence


[XDelusion]

WOW, that's something I never did before...

What I used to do was simply format a floppy, then there was a key set of Files and Folders I would copy over to the disk that would allow it to boot into the WorkBench GUI.

What ever files I needed from there, I simply added to the disk as I went.