buddah problems

[blanning]

Hi everyone.  I'm finally getting around to installing a buddah board with a catweasel.  This is in a 2000 with a gvp 030 board and a scsi drive booting .  I have 2.1 roms i think.

My first problem is that I can't completely read the included floppy disk.  I guess I need to find a floppy image somewhere and make a new disk.

The next thing is that I'm not quite sure what to do.  I think I need to put some sort of driver from the floppy into a directory on the boot drive that gets read when the os boots.  I'm not sure of the particulars.  I can't tell if the floppy has an installation script because I can only read maybe half the files.  I can easily do this sort of thing by hand.  I just need to know what to move where.  I attached an ide hard drive and cdrom drive to the buddah.

So can someone help out with some steps?  How will I know when it's working?  I should get icons on the desktop for the new drives, right?

thanks

brian

[Marcb]

Hi Brian,

I have one of my Buddahs (on an A3000D) running without any software installation at all, I have a backplate CF reader connected to the 40 pin on the Buddha and it boots without any s/w having to be installed from the floppy..

Is the IDE drive pre-partitioned and formatted with AmigaOS or are you going to do that once you get it going with the Buddah?

If it isn't already partioned etc, what I would do is try booting from the WB "installation" floppy (with the buddah in place and IDE drive connected) then use the HDTOOLBOX program to partition and format the drive... (Just make sure you partition the correct drive and not your existing SCSI!) Then copy all your stuff over from the SCSI to the IDE drive , power off, disconnect the SCSI and you should be right...

[tonyyeb]

My Buddha install disk has a few bad sectors but I managed to get the whole disk off. I can e-mail you a zip of the disk if you want?

[blanning]

Thanks.  I was going to keep booting off the scsi drives.  But I guess I could switch entirely over to ide.  The scsi controller is on the 030 board so it's probably faster than the buddah, but the ide drive is probably faster than the scsi drive.  I'll have to experiment I guess.

[blanning]

Yes, please send me the zip.  My address is brianlanning at gmail dot com.

brian

[tonyyeb]

Hi Brian

I'll send it when I get home tonight. Thanks.

Chris

[tonyyeb]

File has been e-mailed  ;-)