I have Version 3.0 of a Cloanto CDROM that I guess could be used to unpack the lha stuff and copy to a diskette to use on the Amiga. I have the diskettes for the installation of Amiga 3.1 but haven't created a boot diskette yet. I guess my memory is fairly rusty and haven't gotten around to figuring it out just yet. Mainly I just hate to mess with the hardware but have no problem with doing software stuff usually. The Amiga is an Amiga 2000HD with a GForc 030 acceleration card. It also has the standard Amiga harddrive controller card that used to have a working 50 MB harddrive for booting. The accelerator card has a data 100 MB harddrive that is nonbooting but unfortunately has stuff on it that I don't want to overwrite without moving it to storage somewhere. There is an external 1 GB SCSI harddrive onto which I hoped to install Debian GNU/Linux just to see if I could do it. I don't mind sacrificing its contents since it used to be on a Macintosh and still 'thinks' that it is on a Mac, (long story, I bought it from a now extinct computer/bookstore).
I just checked modconf and find that I have affs installed as a module on Gcomm (this box). Can I use this with an Imation drive (as a floppy drive) to write files to an Amiga boot diskette? I could copy one of the installation diskettes on the Amiga and write the lha stuff somehow to it, I suppose. If I'm rambling, it's late at night.
BTW, should I CC you or just write to the list? Thank you for your inquiry! It is appreciated! Lance Tagliapietra wrote:
Hello Gayle, were you successful in getting your system to read your Debian CD-Roms? I never saw any messages of success/failure or additional questions. Hope your silence was an indication of success! --Lance (LanceTag@Luminet.net) On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:37:28AM -0600, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote:Is there a way to create an Amiga diskette that will boot into Amiga sarge installation CDROM's? I've lost my boot drive but could possibly boot into the CDROM's to install Debian GNU/Linux on an external SCSI drive, I hope.-- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-68k-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org.
-- (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless, http://counter.li.org/, No. 365760. Linux Gcomm 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Fri Jun 24 12:17:14 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux