SO MANY problems for a poor newbie!

[leirbag28]

@watcher

Here is a simple solution to all your problems:

First...get WinUAE for your PC.........then download AIAB (Amiga IN A Box)  and install it into WinUAE...........its super easy...........Now take your A1200 harddrive and connect it to your PC.......Yes! thats right connect it in the IDE chain..........now from WinAUE add the hard drive to AIAB's configuration..................and whalla!! everything you download on your PC you can just drag and drop into your A1200's hard drive...............then once you've downloaded all and everything you wanted........put the drive back into your A1200 and you have all you need............you can always go back and connect it if you want to add more stuff............


Also you can back up your entire HD into WinUAE and if your A1200 HD gets messed up for some reason......yo have it backed up in WinUAE plus..........you can also burn your HD contents onto CD for safe keeping!

[watcher]

hhmmmm, ok i have downloaded the LHA program and run it, but (and this is embarrasing) could someone five me an example of what i need to type to extract a file in the Floppy drive?

Because when i run the program i get an "output" window with loads of instructions which i kind of understand, and it said "paused. press any key to continue" which i do but after scrolling down several pages of instruction's i get the message "lha failed returncode 20" and after that nothing i type has any effect!!

help!

[Kronos]

Open a shell (in System)and

a) put lha into your path
copy lha to c:
b) change to the target directory:
cd mydir
c) extract files:
lha e pco:#?.lha

This will extract ALL files on disk PCO to the current dir (#? is a wildcard).

[amipal]

This is a really handy topic! Though I pretty much know how to HD-up a bog-standard 1200, I forgotten a few little obviosu things.
Got a boxed A1200 off eBay a few months ago, and going to be putting an HD in that. :-)

[cgutjahr]

leirbag28 wrote:

Here is a simple solution to all your problems:

Connecting an Amiga HD to the PC only makes sense if the HD is partitioned and formatted already. You can't do that under WinUAE IIRC.

watcher's HD is not partitioned yet.

[watcher]

Ok i know im a pain in the arse but....
Is there an easier way of extracting the LHA files?

Im completely new to the amiga and i hav'nt got a clue! Im used to clicking on icon's etc but using command prompts is beyond my knowledge!!!

I have been trying all afternoon but i still cant get it to work and im beginning to feel that i've just wasted alot of money trying to get an amiga set-up that im to thick to use

[sir_inferno]

hey, i'm new to it as well and i managed to get lha working

/me nods to vince_AC

double click on the hammer icon with LHA written under it, and then it should say some crud like, enter command arguments, it's should say LHA already, so you should have this typed in b4 you press enter

LHA X filename.lha

(replacing filename, with the filename  :-) )

that's it! [that's the simplest method of using lha, i've never had to use anything else, though this method will extract to the current directory and then you will have to move it somewhere...

[guest1955]

Even better: go to Aminet and download a GUI frontend for LhA- this will work ontop of the LhA program you have already installed and create a nice 'n' easy WIMP interface.
You can then click your way to success.

[guest1955]

Some Links on Aminet:

http://uk.aminet.net/aminet/dirs/aminet/util/arc/AnArchiver.lha
http://uk.aminet.net/aminet/dirs/aminet/util/arc/ArchEdge.lha
http://uk.aminet.net/aminet/dirs/aminet/util/arc/ccb.lha
http://uk.aminet.net/aminet/dirs/aminet/util/arc/CruncherI_v18.lha
http://uk.aminet.net/aminet/dirs/aminet/util/arc/DFace111.lha

And on, and on and on...

[guest1955]

(Of course, you need to still use "LHA X filename.lha" to extract the archive containing the archived GUI wrapper, but after that it's smooth sailing)

[The_Editor]

iirc  wasn't it Lha E x filename.lha ?

as for front ends .. I always used GuiARC

[guest1955]

You can use that; one keeps the path structure of the archive, the other doesn't, but I cannae remember which does which though!

[CaptainHIT]

I always use xadmaster.library with Voodoo-X GUI :-)

It only can depack archives, not pack, but sure it rules! It can depack over 120 packer formats including DMS and filesystem images like AmigaDOS disks, C64 tapes and disk images, Fat16, ISO9660 ISO etc etc :-D

[cgutjahr]

watcher wrote:
Ok i know im a pain in the arse but....
Is there an easier way of extracting the LHA files?

Im completely new to the amiga and i hav'nt got a clue! Im used to clicking on icon's etc but using command prompts is beyond my knowledge!!!

Don't forget that you are dealing with an OS that's twelve years old. OS 3.9 has way better support for archives (no need to bother with the command line anymore).

Do not bother doing any "cool" stuff with OS3.0/3.1 - just install it, install the neccessary CD-ROM driver and then replace it with OS3.9 as fast as possible ;-)

I have been trying all afternoon but i still cant get it to work and im beginning to feel that i've just wasted alot of money trying to get an amiga set-up that im to thick to use

What's your exact problem? Do you have the Workbench "install" disk now? If not, we can give you step by step instructions, just tell us what you don't manage to do. Once you have the install disk (and a driver for your CD-ROM), the rest is damn easy.

[watcher]

Hi
I managed to figure out what i was doing wrong!! It was a VERY silly and difficult to explain mistake!

The only problem's remaining are the HD Tools of which i have none! and also im having alot of trouble getting hold of drivers for my CD-ROM!

It's an AMACOM 16-BIT PCMCIA CD-ROM that only requires basic generic driver's for my PC, so was kinda hoping that there is just a basic set of drivers for all PCMCIA CD-ROMS on the amiga! And without them i wont be able to install OS 3.9! (in the post to me as we speak!)

Any suggestion's

Thanks

[pjhutch]

There are not that many PCMCIA CDROMS for the Amiga: There are the Archos and Zappo ones I know of. They require specific drivers.
Most CDROMs are IDE or SCSI which ARE supported. So unless AMACOM write Amiga drivers, its pretty useless for the Amiga.