SO MANY problems for a poor newbie!

[pjhutch]

There are not that many PCMCIA CDROMS for the Amiga: There are the Archos and Zappo ones I know of. They require specific drivers.
Most CDROMs are IDE or SCSI which ARE supported. So unless AMACOM write Amiga drivers, its pretty useless for the Amiga.

[watcher]

poo

[watcher]

Ok, so how would i add a CD-Rom to a untowered A1200 with a Blizzard 1230 Accelerator?

Thanks

[watcher]

Thinking about it, if i had a PCMCIA LAN card, is there a way to network my A1200 to my PC so i could use it's CD drive? I once did this with my Atari ST but it was VERY slow as i was using the serial cable, but the PCMCIA should be alot faster, no?

[cgutjahr]

watcher wrote:

The only problem's remaining are the HD Tools of which i have none!

Do you have the install disk and HDToolBox is missing or are you still missing the install disk?

and also im having alot of trouble getting hold of drivers for my CD-ROM! It's an AMACOM 16-BIT PCMCIA CD-ROM that only requires basic generic driver's for my PC, so was kinda hoping that there is just a basic set of drivers for all PCMCIA CD-ROMS on the amiga!

Ouch! I'm afraid there are no amiga drivers for standard PCMCIA CD-ROMs. The few PCMCIA drives available for the amiga are all custom solutions.

And without them i wont be able to install OS 3.9! (in the post to me as we speak!)

Yes you will. It will just become more complicated. You only need to install OS3.9 *once*, you can back it up later on and restore from your backup in (the unlikely) case your boot partition gets messed up.

Here's my suggestion:

Install WinUAE on your PC. Install OS 3.9 under WinUAE.
Partition and format your HD on your real Amiga. Now you have two options to move the WinUAE 3.9 install to the real Amiga HD:

1. Connect the Amiga HD to your PC.

(Works only if you use WindowsXP or (IIRC) Win2000). Simply copy the finished installation to your HD and put the HD into the Amiga. Requires buying another IDE cable (to connect 2.5" HD to 3.5" IDE).

2. Transfer the files through Nullmodem

Requires a Nullmodem cable and two terminal programs. Takes ages but works.

[watcher]

There's a nice towered A1200 on ebay at the moment! Maybe i should have just bought that insted!!!

But im now thinking of towering my A1200! Where the hell do i begin!!!!???

[watcher]

oh ok, i now feel very foolish!

I have been telling you all that i have Workbench 3.1 but i just checked the disk's and there 3.0!!!

Does this make a difference to the HD toolbox i need? Is it already included with 3.0 and if so on what disk?

Thanks

[watcher]

I have just looked through the WB 3.0 manual and it said that the "HD Toolbox" is in the "Tools" drawer on the "Extras" disk..........but ONLY on HD equiped systems!!!!!! My A1200 did'nt originaly come with a HD so im stuffed!!!

There must be somewhere i can download it from!!

[watcher]

Hi
I managed to locate this on aminet!
http://uk.aminet.net/pub/aminet/disk/misc/hdinst.lha

Will it solve my problem?

Thanks

[cgutjahr]

watcher wrote:

http://uk.aminet.net/pub/aminet/disk/misc/hdinst.lha

Will it solve my problem?

Yes, it should, as it seems to be a HDToolBox-Replacement. Note that you should stick to whatever HD-Prep tool you use to partition a disk. Do not use other HD-Tools on a disk you prepared with HDInstTool.

I have been telling you all that i have Workbench 3.1 but i just checked the disk's and there 3.0!!!

Now you have a problem. OS3.9 requires OS3.1 - if you want to use 3.9, you'll have to buy 3.1 Kickstart ROMs first (and replace the original ROMs on your motherboard with the new ones).

[watcher]

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Now you have a problem. OS3.9 requires OS3.1 - if you want to use 3.9, you'll have to buy 3.1 Kickstart ROMs first (and replace the original ROMs on your motherboard with the new ones).
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The Kickstart ROMS are 3.1 as i bought them and installed them myself, but the version of WorkBench i have is 3.0! So can i use OS3.9 with the 3.1 ROMS?

[cgutjahr]

watcher wrote:

The Kickstart ROMS are 3.1 as i bought them and installed them myself, but the version of WorkBench i have is 3.0! So can i use OS3.9 with the 3.1 ROMS?

Yes, OS3.9 only requires the ROMS.