Advice for trouble-shooting & booting a A4000T - Success!

[Ancalimon]

I know it sounds stupid but although AmigaOS 3.9 comes with 3.1 inside it, you still need to have 3.1 disks in order to install AmigaOS3.9  because you need to have a working cdrom

[Ancalimon]

Make a copy of your bootable Workbench disk and then erase enough files on it to make room so you can copy all of the files from the Install floppy disk to it and rename it to the same name of your Install disk.  That should give you a bootable disk that has all of the Install files and allow you to do a proper install of OS3.1.

Hope this helps.

Yyes.  this should work too..  But you have to copy from icon menu I think.  If you simply copy the files to an empty disk, it won't work.

[Ancalimon]

To address your earlier message, A4000T's have lithium batteries stock. they do not have the leakage problem of the earlier rev A4000's. the 4000T's lithium battery is just soldered in.

Some 4000t's had a small board plugged to the floppy pin header,it was just for using a pc floppy in them(many came with sony drives). later ones came with ugly hacked floppy cables instead of that little board. Any 4000T can use a High density drive, you just need a good cable that hasnt been hacked. no changes need to be made to the disk board other than removing that small adapter if its present.

Mech

Maybe there is that dongle on this A4000T and it's causing problems with the Install disk and the high density floppy drive amigasociety is using?

Amigasociety:  http://winuaehelp.back2roots.org/background/amigados.htm
Here are explanations of AmigaDOS commands which shall come in handy.


Also don't forget that you definitely need this for AmigaOS3.1 to function properly with you card:  http://aminet.net/package/util/boot/SetPatch_43.6b

And this self extracting lha command to extract lha files: http://aminet.net/util/arc/lha.run

[SACC-guy]

Mine are OEM Amiga floppies, not copies.

But yes, I guess it can be bad.

Hey Sac Amiga group, any of you here reading this thread?

Any of you running A4000T?

I would like to bring the A4000T to your next meeting.  :hammer::hammer:

tj

sigh
Yes, several sacc members have seen your post.
Yes, you are welcome to come to the dec 5th meeting (as I posted several times before)
It's normally a shared holiday meet (after amiwest)
please refer to the sacc dot org page for location info
Please contact Chuck so he can arrange to have the help you need (ie ask the 4000T owner(s) to make an effort to attend)
(if you haven't brought all the items you need and no-one else has either...)tools, monitors, cables, disks, extras, etc...
Yes, we have 4000T owning members.

m

[amigasociety]

sigh
Yes, several sacc members have seen your post.
Yes, you are welcome to come to the dec 5th meeting (as I posted several times before)
It's normally a shared holiday meet (after amiwest)
please refer to the sacc dot org page for location info
Please contact Chuck so he can arrange to have the help you need (ie ask the 4000T owner(s) to make an effort to attend)
(if you haven't brought all the items you need and no-one else has either...)tools, monitors, cables, disks, extras, etc...
Yes, we have 4000T owning members.

m

I will have to see if I can find Chucks contact info on your page.

See you tomorrow.

Tj

[SACC-guy]

It's there. Has been for years and years.

[amigasociety]

Thanks for Sacc-Guy and the SACC Amiga Club I now have a working A4000T from hard drive.  Enjoyed 3+ hours of Amiga time last night as I joined their club for their Dec meet.  

Was nice to meet people, learn Amiga, and come home with a running system.  

Hands on help is always the best!

Ended up needing the special 060 library like some said allowed the hard drive to boot.  So was close, real close, but having that helping and teaching hand guide things made it happen.

Now I have a better idea of how this all works.

Now it is time to play!

tj

*also thanks to those here that helped me.  Without this community, I would be babbling on the side of the road with a nice A4000T being used as a seat to sit on.  :hammer:

[SACC-guy]

You're welcome.

m