At 06:01 PM 3/23/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Pippi wrote:
>
>Do you have a working workbench disk? If so you need to mount the HD (in
>AmigaDOS).
>Without either a manual, someone that has one or someone that knows enough
>about an AMIGA you can not do anything "advanced" with it at all. Luckily
>I've borrowed a manual from a friend so I can probably help you out :)
okay, I DO have such a floppy, last time I had it up and running I opened a
CLI window but curiously could not get any text to type in it. Probably a
connection problem with the keyboard. Nevertheless, what would I type to
mount said drive? So the fact that floppies inserted in the floppy drive
appear by magic on the desktop is because the DRIVE is already
automagically mounted?
>You could (probably) copy a disk you don't have by download it as an ADF
>(Amiga Disk Format) from the Internet. ADFs are manily used by people that
>use an AMIGA emulator. (And by PS/2 machines - but that's another ADF).
I do not have an external PC drive that I can attach onto the Amiga,
although I do have an external 3.5" drive with a db 19 connector (weird)
and no marking on it save it's fcc id that I've not looked up. The amiga's
floppy connection port is a db 23. I have never used the external floppy,
just that it was only $5. ~grin~
> >But how do I get those disks for the amiga? if I can't transfer software
> >from my net connected machine?
>
>You can - on a PC floppy (that you need to mount ("mount PC0:"))
>The AMIGA can read PC floppies - but not boot from them (for obvious
>reasons software is required which is on the ("newer"?) workbench disk).
But not just the floppy, also the drive? So taking an old double density
which is what it uses, and formatting/writing to it as a double density in
my pc won't work, or will? this is where I"m not clear, is it the drive
that has to be a IBM compatible, or just the floppy? You have used the
term floppy for both the disk and the drive and I am not sure which you mean.
>Ok then, I didn't know that. Start a Shell and type mount to see mount
>information and get back to me (perhaps we should take this off-list?).
I dunno, seems useful info for any lurkers, I'll change the subject header
to be more obvious
>BTW: Don't change mount status on your workbench disk - you might
>accidently write to the wrong place (boot-up files).
I keep that disk write protected.
>a bizarre
>mixture of DOS and Linux.
yes, the command prompt looks just like that
>You probably need to change the AMIGAs BIOS
I'll examine said bios, if only for curiosity, which is the sole purpose of
this machine anyway.
> >It doesn't say what it is, just has amiga and a colored checkmark.
> >br99yb-1000 is the fccID
>How weird, all (ok - not that many) AMIGAs I've seen have information on
>what it is in the top left corner.
That's where the check mark icon and name amiga are located. It's a low
flat thing, like a desktop PC, with a "garage" under that fits the
keyboard, and the drive hanging awkwardly off the side, held on by it's
connection (I put a yo-yo under for support on the far side) and the drive
has a humongous power box downstream on the cord, with a switch. There are
two "serial" ports on the side, one which has the mouse in it, and the
drive gets in the way of them, so the mouse connector has to be at a right
angle to get between. Drive has a parallel port on rear (but pointed
forward?) and four dip switches, #1 is up, the other 3 are down. Up is on.
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