Need AmigaDOS 2.04

[tonyyeb]

Hi all

Just trying to install my new Buddha card into my A3000D. Installing the software stops early on saying need Amiga DOS 2.04. My kickstart is version 36.143 and workbench is 36.68.

What do I need to do to upgrade to Amiga DOS 2.04?

I have some Kickstart 3.1 ROM's on their way from America but they are probably a week away. Is there an easier way?

Any advice?

Thanks

[jj]

Have you tried softkicking a 2.04 or 3.1 rom, plenty of progs on aminet to do this.

However im guessing that the buddha card needs the autobboting properties for hard disks that came with 2.04 on I beleive

[Matt_H]

You've got the 1.4 Boot ROMs with (I think) Release 2.01 in software. You need a newer Super Kickstart disk and the 2.04 installation disks.

But waiting for the 3.1 ROMs is probably the easiest solution. You'll need the 3.1 disks to go with them as well.

The pre-2.04 software is pretty uncommon, so if you've got original disks they're probably worth backing up for historical purposes.

[Darrin]

Matt_H wrote:
You've got the 1.4 Boot ROMs with (I think) Release 2.01 in software. You need a newer Super Kickstart disk and the 2.04 installation disks.

But waiting for the 3.1 ROMs is probably the easiest solution. You'll need the 3.1 disks to go with them as well.

The pre-2.04 software is pretty uncommon, so if you've got original disks they're probably worth backing up for historical purposes.

Yeah, the first thing I did with my A3000 was replace those damn Super Kickstart ROMS with some real ones.

[tonyyeb]

Thanks for the tips guys.

Now for the hard part. How do I get any of these items of software onto my Amiga from my PC?

EDIT: Plus anyone got a link to some kicking software that will work on my A3000? (Allowing the SCSI harddrive to remain available).

[Darrin]

tonyyeb wrote:
Thanks for the tips guys.

Now for the hard part. How do I get any of these items of software onto my Amiga from my PC?

EDIT: Plus anyone got a link to some kicking software that will work on my A3000? (Allowing the SCSI harddrive to remain available).

The old way is to use the floppy disk using Cross DOS.

I think teh first question really is, "What Amiga OS disks do you have to install on the hard drive?"

If you have OS3.x then you'll have a handy PC0: icon you can drag into your DOS Drivers folder to enable the floppy to read DSDD floppy disks (720KB).

From there I'd download LHA, FAT95 and TSGUI from Aminet.net.

LHA:  Because nearky everything you download will be compressed using LHA and it will allow Amiga disks (which are larger than the PC disk capacity) to be compressed transferred over to the Amiga where you can use the shell command:

LHA PC0: X

and the archive will be unpacked into RAM: where you can then drag it to your hard drive.  Note that the LHA command needs to go into your SYS:C draw.

FAT95:  Because you can then use long file names with FAT16.  Also, if you have a IOmega ZIP100 plus then you can FAT16 format a disk and use it via the SCSI port on the Amiga and the parallel port on the PC for swapping files in bulk.

TSGUI:  The easiest way I've found for turning an ADF back into a real Amiga floppy disk.  Just drag the uncompressed folder out of RAM: and onto your hard drive and start unpacking those ADFs to floppy.  With this, if you need someone to send you a disk then you canask them to LHA it, email it to you, copy it from the PC to a floppy, stick the floppy in the Amiga and use LHA to extract teh image to RAM: and then use TSGUI to write teh extracted ADF to a real floppy.

Alternatively, I strongly recommend buying OS3.9 and a Deneb USB 2.0 card and do all your transferring by USB memory stick.  :-)

[tonyyeb]

Darrin wrote:

The old way is to use the floppy disk using Cross DOS.

I think teh first question really is, "What Amiga OS disks do you have to install on the hard drive?"

If you have OS3.x then you'll have a handy PC0: icon you can drag into your DOS Drivers folder to enable the floppy to read DSDD floppy disks (720KB).

See first post - only got 2.0

From there I'd download LHA, FAT95 and TSGUI from Aminet.net.

LHA:  Because nearky everything you download will be compressed using LHA and it will allow Amiga disks (which are larger than the PC disk capacity) to be compressed transferred over to the Amiga where you can use the shell command:

LHA PC0: X

and the archive will be unpacked into RAM: where you can then drag it to your hard drive.  Note that the LHA command needs to go into your SYS:C draw.

Not possible as yet as no way to transfer stuff.

FAT95:  Because you can then use long file names with FAT16.  Also, if you have a IOmega ZIP100 plus then you can FAT16 format a disk and use it via the SCSI port on the Amiga and the parallel port on the PC for swapping files in bulk.

Have a ZIP100 drive but it is IDE!

TSGUI:  The easiest way I've found for turning an ADF back into a real Amiga floppy disk.  Just drag the uncompressed folder out of RAM: and onto your hard drive and start unpacking those ADFs to floppy.  With this, if you need someone to send you a disk then you canask them to LHA it, email it to you, copy it from the PC to a floppy, stick the floppy in the Amiga and use LHA to extract teh image to RAM: and then use TSGUI to write teh extracted ADF to a real floppy.

That will be handy when I can get some ADF's onto my A3000

Alternatively, I strongly recommend buying OS3.9 and a Deneb USB 2.0 card and do all your transferring by USB memory stick.  :-)

At £100+ it will be a while! And it needs OS3+! Might as well buy a CATWEASEL. Ill just wait for my Kickstart 3.1 ROM's to arrive.

[tonyyeb]

**UPDATE**

I just got my 2.5" laptop hardrive working with the Buddha! Just formatting a 900mb ish partition now. Hopefully I can then put it in a 2.5" USB caddy and read and write to it using UAE!

15mins to go on the format!

[tonyyeb]

Ok format took a little longer than expected/calculated! It had hung on the Formatting Disk message although it had stopped listing how many cylinders to go. It appeared that it had hung. Mouse movement didn't respond. So rebooted and the drive was there! I could copy stuff to it etc...

Then put it in a USB caddy and added it to a UAE config. That too worked! I can now copy stuff to the Amiga. Thanks to everyone who has helped especially ZeBeeDee who has been more help than anyone or anything I have read! Cheers bud... I think I owe you... lots!

Now waiting for my 3.1 ROMs to arrive from the US and then can install WB 3.1 and start enjoying an Amiga again  8-)