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Posted 05-31-2009 at 06:14 PM by quarkx
The last few days I have been playing with the A600, and the A1200. I tried to install the OS to the hard drive, But the 370 Meg drive refused to Format and as a result, I tossed it. I got up and took the bus out to the used Computer store this morning, to pick up another drive. Normally I have a stack of 1 to 5 gig Laptop drives, but they must have gotten left behind in my move last year.
I found an IBM Deathstar 10 gig drive. They only hosed me $20 for it. I got home about noon and installed it. I then ran Install. The OS 3.1 will only recognize 4 gigs until I install the patch, so now its "formatting". 4 Hours later and its only about 80% done. I am considering myself lucky so far, it did not give me the problems the other drive did.
While the days have been playing with hardware, I have a lot of free time at work. We have no 'Net access, nor can we watch TV, so I read. I have been studying the book, shown above. It's a slow and dry read, But I have read through it twice so far, and at least I have learned one small thing. In order to see the files in a window, you have to turn on "show all files" in each window, every time. While this is not a perfect solution, low and behold, I am not running blind all the time. Now to find a program that turns that feature on all the time, on every window.
The A1200 has been running great. But I am still fighting with the different file compression formats. I was installing the "Magic" software, that came with the 1200. I thought the "WizZ" disks were corrupted, but then I read the manual and see that I can't install WizZ, but have to boot right to the floppies, Its kind of a frustrating game until you get use to the "3D" view they have on it. I had a install issue with Pinball, I will try that again later.
I am not sure when I will get back to the 4000, but soon. Today, I will be loading up the 600, so I can take it to work. I hope the WHDload is not too advanced to load up. LOL.
I found an IBM Deathstar 10 gig drive. They only hosed me $20 for it. I got home about noon and installed it. I then ran Install. The OS 3.1 will only recognize 4 gigs until I install the patch, so now its "formatting". 4 Hours later and its only about 80% done. I am considering myself lucky so far, it did not give me the problems the other drive did.
While the days have been playing with hardware, I have a lot of free time at work. We have no 'Net access, nor can we watch TV, so I read. I have been studying the book, shown above. It's a slow and dry read, But I have read through it twice so far, and at least I have learned one small thing. In order to see the files in a window, you have to turn on "show all files" in each window, every time. While this is not a perfect solution, low and behold, I am not running blind all the time. Now to find a program that turns that feature on all the time, on every window.
The A1200 has been running great. But I am still fighting with the different file compression formats. I was installing the "Magic" software, that came with the 1200. I thought the "WizZ" disks were corrupted, but then I read the manual and see that I can't install WizZ, but have to boot right to the floppies, Its kind of a frustrating game until you get use to the "3D" view they have on it. I had a install issue with Pinball, I will try that again later.
I am not sure when I will get back to the 4000, but soon. Today, I will be loading up the 600, so I can take it to work. I hope the WHDload is not too advanced to load up. LOL.
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I was actually wondering whether or not I could get away with configuring a bootable floppy with the bare minimum on it to start a network stack and then assign all the system stuff over to a samba share with the full OS proper on it. Might be a fun way of working. Might be a total disaster
Posted 06-02-2009 at 04:05 PM by Karlos 
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Envoy would probably work better than SMB for remote booting. Supports Amiga file permissions etc. Of course, the remote host has to be an Amiga (real or emulated).
Posted 06-03-2009 at 04:33 AM by xeron
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Back in the day when all I had was my 040 powered 1200 (still in a desktop case) and an otherwise unexpanded A600, I used parnet to connect the two and had a directory on the 1200's hard disk to hold OS2.05 for the A600. The floppy just had enough to start up parnet and then run a customised startup sequence.
It was pretty slow, but faster and more convenient than running software from floppy
Whether Envoy or Samba, a proper PCMCIA NIC is a bit faster than the old parallel port for such shennanigans, I'd wager.Posted 06-03-2009 at 05:41 AM by Karlos
