Workbench 3.0 Installation

[Robert17]

Hey guys this may sound like a really stupid question to you but I just installed Workbench 3.0 with the installer and when my computer boots now it just goes to the commant prompt (amigados)

Should it do this, if it should what do I have to type?!

If not what am I doing wrong?

Cheers

[fred9000uk]

This happen to me, when I installed my workbench, I found that when I boot from a floppy disk and checked the hard drive installed version the keyboard folder was corrupt , manual copied it over & rebooted using the harddrive every thing was OK, may be worth checking?

[Robert17]

I just tried that but even when booting from the floopy (I set DF0 as the boot drive in the startup menu) it still goes straight to AmigaDos and the 1> Prompt.

[amiga1260]

Do the following things:

1)Type ed s:startup-sequence
2)Type this in:
loadwb
setpatch quiet
endcli
3) Close the ed editor and reboot

Now you are running Workbench with disk icons.

[Ilwrath]

Hmm...  You really want 'setpatch quiet' as the first line.

(The only excuse for making it the 2nd line is if your first line is a maprom or rsrvwarm.)

'loadwb' and 'endcli' should be the last two lines.  All other stuff goes in between. 'setpatch quiet' and 'loadwb'.  ;-)

[Robert17]

The startup file has loads of other stuff in it that it won't let me delete, none of them are commands which you have listed?

[Ilwrath]

The startup file has loads of other stuff in it that it won't let me delete, none of them are commands which you have listed?

Hmm...  Won't let you delete?  What program are you using?

Anyhow, that doesn't matter too much.  It sounds like the installer installed the wrong s:startup-sequence file.

Boot your Amiga from the Hard drive up to your command prompt, and then insert the "Workbench 3.0" floppy in df0: and type the following command:

sys:c/copy df0:s/startup-sequence sys:s/startup-sequence

Type 'y' to confirm replacing the existing file.

wait for disk activity to stop.

remove Workbench disk from df0:

CTRL-Amiga-Amiga to reset the machine.... and viola, Workbench.  hopefully.  ;-)

[Framiga]

Hi Robert17

erm . . . have you made the new partition bootable from HDToolbox?

Ciao

[Robert17]

yes I've made the drive bootable and I can't get the command line to work, and there's nothing about Y to confirm, I dont believe I actually have a startup-sequence file...

[Thomas]

As you were already told, if AmigaOS ends up at the command prompt, the startup scripts ended without loading workbench. The first cause could be that there are no startup scripts. Are you sure you installed Workbench on the boot partition and not on another one ? Enter CD at the prompt to check which drive is the current one.

If is it correct, open S:Startup-sequence with the Ed editor as told before. It should look similar to this: http://home.t-online.de/home/thomas-rapp/download/Startup-Sequence.txt
BTW. Ed lets you delete a line by pressing Ctrl-B. Changes are saved by pressing Esc and entering X. The editor can be closed without saving by pressing Esc and entering Q.

You may also try to copy the original Startup-Sequence from your Workbench disk as described earlier. The copy command does not ask for replacement. It silently returns to the command prompt if it was successfull or give an error message otherwise.

If the file Startup-Sequence is correct you might try to enter the lines set echo on and execute s:startup-sequence at the prompt. It should now list every command it executes and you can see where it stops.
If it gives an error message, please tell us the exact text.

Bye,
Thomas

[HopperJF]

Robert17 wrote:
yes I've made the drive bootable and I can't get the command line to work, and there's nothing about Y to confirm, I dont believe I actually have a startup-sequence file...

Not even on your Workbench disk?

1) Boot up Amiga with no disk in the drive

2) Insert Workbench disk

3) Using the command in the previous post, copy the startup sequence file from the disk to the S directory on your HD..

 :-?

[Ilwrath]

Yeah... it may not ask for confirmation.  It may just silently copy the file in question.  

Now... I probably should have asked this....  Your workbench floppy disk actually boots to workbench, right?  ;-)

[Robert17]

There is no error, I have created a file using the editor called "startup-sequence" and put setpatch quiet etc in there, saved it but still I end up at the prompt on startup, Surely the install disk I bought (amigadeals) should have done all this for me?

It said on screen after everything was done to click proceed to reboot and start workbench...

The only file I have is called Ed Startup, originally there was no Startup-Sequence.

[Robert17]

Yes it did boot to workbench but when I try it now it still goes to the command prompt...

[Ilwrath]

Does the machine display any errors or requestors before dropping you at the command prompt?  Typically, I'd expect it to look like:

AMIGA ROM Operating System and Libraries
Copyright 1985-whatever
All Rights Reserved.
1>

Does yours look like this, or have other stuff?

What does typing the following command print....

sys:c/cd

and does

sys:c/dir

call up a listing that shows directories like C, S, Libs, Prefs, Utilities, etc....?

Maybe your computer is trying to boot from something other than the partition you installed Workbench to?