Re: Creating Amiga boot diskettes
Christian T. Steigies <cts@debian.org> wrote:
I have no idea what a gateway 500 (an Amiga built when Gateway owned it? ...
Nope, it was originally just a Pentium III running at 500 MHZ with a
13 GB harddrive and Windows 98SE. With a 160 GB as a second harddrive,
I installed Debian GNU/Linux also (see my signature line).
Christian T. Steigies <cts@debian.org> wrote:
But if you have all these SCSI disks and Amiga emulator software, why don't
you hook up a SCSI disk to one of your PCs and do the installation from the
emulator?
The PC's don't have SCSI although the Amiga does. Both of them can
access a ZIP 100 cartridge (Well, once I can get the Amiga running
properly). I have a USB external ZIP 250 drive for the PC's (Gcomm and
redetch). The Amiga has SCSI ZIP 100 drives.
As for the Cloanto CDROM, the DVD/CD reader on Gcomm decided to be
temperamental so that's out.
Rolf Anders <rolf.anders@physik.uni-augsburg.de> wrote:
I think you only need the following files to mount a CDROM:
c/mount
devs/dosdrivers/CD0
l/cdrom-handler
You can get the latter 2 files from
http://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/aminet/disk/cdrom/AmiCDROM-1.15.lha . If
you copy those files to a floppy and make it bootable using "install" you
should be able to mount the CD with "mount cd0:".
I got these files the day they were suggested.
Lance (LanceTag@Luminet.net) wrote:
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!
I have gotten as far as installing AmigaDOS 3.1 onto the 100 MB
harddrive on the GForce accelerator; however, that drive is not
self-booting so I still have to boot from a floppy. Is there a command
script with a bunch of ASSIGN Amiga commands to switch the booted Amiga
off the floppy?
Then I need to get the 386 bridgeboard back working and hook up the
external 1 GB harddrive on which I wanted to experiment with installing
Debian GNU/Linux sarge. I also have a 733 MB harddrive that might be
good to replace the 50 MB harddrive that croaked on me. Decisions!
Decisions!
Some of my hardware is a bit old and cranky. I have a number of
other Amigas around the house that I've either bought or gotten for
free. I also have a few Apple II systems.
Thanks for any reminders, hints, or encouragement!
--
(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
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