Script for mounting ADF, ISO and HDF images.

[PanterHZ]

The next version of Amiga911 Maker is soon ready to be released. One of the new features is that DiskImage can now be added to the boot disks created, this gives the possibility of mounting ADF floppy images, ISO CD-ROM images and HDF harddisk images after booting the Amiga911 floppy. The user can then copy files from/to the mounted image files,

Everything is controlled by DiskImageGui, which is a simple requester based script I have created, it allows the user to insert and eject disk image files in/from the virtual devices. Since things has to be kept very simple on the Amiga911 disk, I decided to not mess around with seperate mount files. Instead they will be generated on the fly by the script when they are needed, then the script will use the temporarily created mount files for mounting the image files.

The mount file creation method turned out to be really useful when dealing with HDF image files since the details of the mount file needs to match the characteristics of the HDF image in question. Here the "HighCyl" value is most important, and the script will use the size of the HDF file for calculating the correct value.

The main reason for adding HDF support, is that not only will it now be possible to set up a harddisk by using the Amiga911 disk, the user can also mount one of the pre-configured Workbench packs like ClassicWB, and then copy everything from the HDF file directly to the harddisk!
Several versions of ClassicWB has been tested, and the DiskImageGui script should be able to mount any HDF file as long as it uses a block size of 512 and a BlocksPerTrack value of 32.


The reason why I'm writing this post, is just in case someone here on this forum is interested in the script I have created. DiskImageGui does also work on standard Workbench as well, so I'm including it here. Just have in mind that a 020 or higher CPU is required.

In addition you will also need this: http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/diskimage

Just copy DiskImageCtrl to C: and diskimage.device to Devs:, then start the DiskImageGui script. For mounting ISO images, you will also need AmiCDFS which you can find here: http://aminet.net/package/disk/cdrom/amicdfs240


PS! There are two different versions of diskimage.device, but only Thore Böckelmann's version is supported.

[nicholas]

Amazing work as usual, thanks!

[PanterHZ]

Thanks nicholas

Amiga911 Maker 1.46 will most likely be released within the next few days, I just have to do some more testing and go over the documentation first.

[Gulliver]

Great work!

I am glad you are still working on it.

[PanterHZ]

Thanks Gulliver

Version 1.46 of Amiga911 Maker is now available.

http://rhz1.com/amiga911maker

[XDelusion]

Hey, thankx brother!

[Darrin]

Cheers.  Finally an easy way to install ClassicWB on a real Amiga without messing around with UAE (not that it is that much trouble, but it is nice to do it all on an Amiga).  I look for ward to trying it.

[XDelusion]

Oh, and I just noticed that you are familiar with The Residents.

Double Plus Good!

[PanterHZ]

Cheers.  Finally an easy way to install ClassicWB on a real Amiga without messing around with UAE (not that it is that much trouble, but it is nice to do it all on an Amiga).  I look for ward to trying it.

Well if you have tried it, I hope everything worked like it should Darrin

Oh, and I just noticed that you are familiar with The Residents.

Double Plus Good!

Oh yes The Residents. My first experience with the band was in the 80's when a concert with them was aired on TV in my country. I didn't like the music then, and I didn't understand how others could either. But I never forgot about what I had seen, and years later I started to like this kind of weird music that The Residents make.

I was really a happy man the day I found the same concert I watched years ago on youtube, so happy that I not only decided to grab a screen of the video to use as a new avatar, I also downloaded the videos and converted them to mp3 files as well.

Here is the concert I'm talking about:

[youtube]U1PMkNwKIgE[/youtube]

[XDelusion]

Awesome!! I'm gonna have to remember to download that!!

And you are right, The Residents are most certainly an acquired taste. I don't think I discovered them till about 93 or 94, but have been hooked since!

[slaapliedje]

I'm into some weird music (the Legendary Pink Dots) and I'd have to say, that sounds like something they would do, but the outfits are what made that video!  

A constant WTF when watching it.  Bravo, thought I'd seen / heard some of the weirdest music before, I stand corrected.

slaapliedje

[XDelusion]

I'm a HUGE Pink Dots fan as well!

[fartknocker]

Thankyou .. This is perfect for my needs.