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Offline doctorq

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Re: A4000 bootdisk CD/DVD support
« Reply #29 from previous page: October 23, 2009, 05:24:54 PM »
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first you claimed there is much other hardware, too less support, then you claim of cluttering the disk up. what is unneeded at supporting a DVD?? WHAT DO YOU WANT?


Again chill. I guess the opinions of those that says it's all great means more than those that try to give you informaton. Oh well.

I have never said that it was unneeded to support a DVD. You said it yourself that you have never had a BlizzardPPC, which indicates that the DVDRAM driver is from somewhere or someone else. This leads me to believe that you don't entirely knows how the DOSDrivers work.

As for cluttering up the disk; do you see a point in having something mounted that can't be mounted at all and points to devices that can't even be mounted on an Amiga 4000? And who has 4 floppy drives connected to their Amiga? If you clutter up the disk with unneeded stuff, you will never be able to get a TCP/IP stack running from one disk, or even two.

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and will be true on many other hardware configurations.


Nope. As soon as you switch to a different CPU card that needs CPU specific libraries you will run into trouble. So will those that use different controllers on their Amiga.

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if i wanted that, i'd done that.

I'm sure, but it will still be a better option than writing a installation script that needs you to get this, get that, etc.

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do you think i'm using amiga the first time or after buying a PC?


How you can get that out of the following statement I simply can not understand...

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Those expecting to find a boot disk that will install eveything by itself are to used to PCs. This is Amiga, it takes a bit more effort to get it running.


And I still stand by my words. You can not make a boot disk that will boot and install everything by itself while you are leaning back in the chair. These people need to put a bit more effort into.

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get lost and don't wreck my nerves further with this unneeded discussion here.


You asked for feedback, I gave you feedback. It was obviously not the feedback you wanted.

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you'd better tell me how to do an install script or where i can find a guide, what would maybe further most common drivers be, what could be useful as tool. and not claiming what it all DOES NOT.


Why would I when you clearly don't want my help? All I was trying to do was to inform you about some points that was worth taking a look at, and the problems you can expect to run into. You wanted neither of the information, so there is really no need to inform you any further.

The final reason for pointing out what it can not, is only to get these problems solved, so it actually can do what you are hoping for it to do (for instance getting a DVD accessable from Workbench).
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Re: A4000 bootdisk CD/DVD support
« Reply #30 on: October 23, 2009, 05:44:54 PM »
*sigh*

two last points:

the installer3.1 also boots on every amiga 4000 ootb, and even 1200 with my added turboboards, A3630/40 etc.. and maybe (!) some other configs.

a 20 line mountfile would not make the disk much larger.
they even don't need to get automounted. what to mount can be set by installer script.

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me for myself wanted to get a setup much easier, without copying many things from many disks/cds or internet everytime i want to setup a new amiga or hardrive.
and i wanted to share that with most common A4000D users as i am. got me?

i asked about copyright infringements, you helped.
i asked about scripting with the installer, you helped not, but telling me i should better not do such thing, but so and so, like you would do it.
my target is a disk and not a guide.
therefore is what i asked (the scripting - now the 3rd time) and you telling me about problems and problems and problems. and do it so and let that off and don't make a disk.

i would not do that if i'd think users lend down and let the amiga do the work...

argh

what do i have to explain next?
don't get me wrong, but i don't like to get information about problems i don't have and will not have yet! (see my config)



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A4000D A3640 CV64 22MB RAM 14GB HDD DVD-RAM SCSI/IDE Connexion (A2065) LAN Ext. FliFi/SD
A1200D Apollo 1230 68030@25MHz 6/10MB RAM 4GB HDD PCMCIA (CNET) LAN
3xA500 3x+512KB KickROMs 1.2/1.3/2.0 "Sidecars": 50MB SCSI HDD, 8MB RAM

 

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Re: A4000 bootdisk CD/DVD support
« Reply #31 on: October 23, 2009, 06:59:53 PM »
@jedcooper:

I have been searching for information about installer scripts (there's one I want to write myself) and I've found the guide included in Installer-43_3.lha from Aminet (util/misc) is quite useful. That and taking a look to existing scripts have helped me a lot.
 

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Re: A4000 bootdisk CD/DVD support
« Reply #32 on: October 23, 2009, 07:43:22 PM »
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@jedcooper:

I have been searching for information about installer scripts (there's one I want to write myself) and I've found the guide included in Installer-43_3.lha from Aminet (util/misc) is quite useful. That and taking a look to existing scripts have helped me a lot.

alright thx! i will look at them if i get my A4000D back running again.
A4000D A3640 CV64 22MB RAM 14GB HDD DVD-RAM SCSI/IDE Connexion (A2065) LAN Ext. FliFi/SD
A1200D Apollo 1230 68030@25MHz 6/10MB RAM 4GB HDD PCMCIA (CNET) LAN
3xA500 3x+512KB KickROMs 1.2/1.3/2.0 "Sidecars": 50MB SCSI HDD, 8MB RAM