Making a Workbench 1.3 Hard Drive

[garak0410]

Hello...I know how to create a "hard file" for Win UAE but I can't remember how to make a bootable Workbench 1.3 hard drive. Any suggestions? Anyone have an install disk of sorts?

Thanks,
Brian

[Fester]

In 1.3? Copy to contents of your workbench diskette to the hard drive. I'm assuming the UAE Hd is device name dh0 and has the autoboot checked. That should do it...

[rkauer]

 Never forget to copy the filesystem to L: !!!

 Or the HD won't auto boot.

[_ThEcRoW]

It won't work. I asked that same question to Toni Wilen, maintainer of winuae and told me that the hd autoboot isn't in the rom 1.3. The fact that there were hd's for a500 for example are because the patch needed is in the sidecar expansion or accelerator rom.

[garak0410]

Next question then...how compatable is OS 3.x with the older stuff? When I was a regular Amiga user, I went up to 2.1 and that was it. I like the classic "feel" of 1.3 but also, I want a hard drive install of an Amiga OS.

Thanks,
Brian

[AMC258]

You don't need an autobooting hard drive.  You can boot without autoboot!  You boot from one drive and transfer everything to the other drive.  It's pretty quick and works really well.

Here's what you do.  Copy your Workbench floppy to DH0:  Create a boot floppy, with ONLY an S directory, with Startup-Sequence in S/
In S/Startup-Sequence:

Assign SYS: DH0:
Assign C: SYS:C
Assign S: SYS:S
{Maybe need some more assigns here, I can't remember.  Boot to the floppy without a Startup-Sequence and see what's assigned at boot time}
SYS:
Execute S:Startup-Sequence

That's it.  You transfer booting from the floppy to the HD.  This works in ANY version of AmigaOS, and I have done it many times for many reasons.