First of all, you need to use kick 3.1 and at least WB3.1
It works with 3.0 either.
I can only find a 20 gig or b igger hard drive and I cannot make it see all of it or even enough for her to install her video toaster flyer software. Can someone help me refresh to set this up correctly?
Boot from the Install disk, run HDToolbox, select the HDD, click on "Change drive type", click on "Define new" and click on "Read configuration". Make sure the values for Heads, Sectors and Cylinders are correct. Hint: 16 Heads, 63 Secotors and 16384 Cylinders are *not* the correct values.
If you've got the data sheet of the HDD, look for the value for "total sectors" or "user sectors" or "logical sectors". Divide this value by 16 and by 63 to get the number of cylinders. The result should be a whole number. If it isn't, don't round but cut off the remainder.
You might also use 16 heads, 63 sectors and 8322 cylinders to fake a 4GB drive, then you don't have so many problems when partitioning but are also unable to use the rest of the disk later.
After that click on Ok until you are back on the first page of HDToolbox, then click on "Partition drive" and create one 500 Meg boot partition and one 3000 Meg work partition. Note that the sizes displayed by HDToolbox are all wrong, you have to calculate the real sizes yourself. (Everything above 2GB is displayed wrong, if you use only sizes smaller than 2GB, then the display is correct).
To use the other 16GB of the disk, you have to install some special patches (updated IDE driver and updated file system), but I think this can wait until you successfully installed the desired software. 4GB is plenty of space for an Amiga.
Bye,
Thomas
