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31 Is it possible to use the Aminet, Fred Fish, etc... CDs without an expanded CD32? |
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This article is from the Amiga CD32 FAQ, by Stuart Tomlinson with numerous contributions by others.
A: Yes, Maarten Ter Mors has written a step by step guide of how to do
this. It's available from aminet:/docs/misc/Aminet4_CD32.txt. There can
be problems booting from some CDs if you use an unexpanded CD32 though.
Maarten wrote:
There was a little something I missed in the CD32 FAQ. Because of (yet
another) strange oddity in the Commodore 3.1 CDFileSystem, you can only
use CD-ROMs with a *lower* or equal ISO revision than the disc you
booted from (this is irrelevant to SX-1 users, for they are likely to
boot from harddrive or floppy).
The Aminet 4 CD and the GoldFish CD-ROM set by Fred Fish are two
examples of discs that use a higher revision than, say, the Weird
Science Network CD. This means that you can't access the discs properly
or at all. The solution is booting from a RAD: recoverable RAM disk. I
was asked by Urban Mueller (who does a lot of the good work on the
Aminet CDs) to write a step-by-step guide to set one up.
A: Joop van de Wege has another answer (Aminet 5 & Communicator)...
I haven't read the notice yet but I found out for myself how to do it
and its not a hassle. I'm just too lazy to write a small script file
to copy the 2 files and execute the mount command.
Step 1: copy your mountlist entry CR0: to snet:ram
Step 2: copy L:amicdromfilesystem to snet:ram
Step 3: mount cr0: on the cd32 side
Step 4 and last one: start copying files from cr0: to whereever you
want them, run programs, read guide files, search for ......
A: And another from David Law of Weird Science (Aminet & Network CD)...
We have found that CBM's filesystem in general does not cope too well
with the Aminet CDs. This may be due as you say to ISO revision
numbers. The easiest fix is to remount the CD drive as CD1: with
AmiCDRom filesystem and access the Aminet CD's as `CD1:` or
`Network:CD1/` with Sernet. When trying this be sure to set the 'T'
flag in the line 'Startup' of the mountlist. This will ensure that the
trackdisk device is used to access the CD drive. AmiCDRom filesystem
for some reason thinks that the CD drive is a SCSI device otherwise and
will probably crash the machine.
The best way to do this is setup a drawer on your amiga with the
following files in. [Call it RAM:CD1 for the mount list below - Dan.]
CD1 AmiCDRom Mountlist file.
CD1.info An icon for the above.
cdrom-handler The filesystem handler.
Mount WB3.1 Mount command.
Just ensure that the mountlist points to 'Ram:cdrom-handler' and not
'L:cdrom.handler' and that the icon points to 'Ram:Mount' as the mount
command on the NetworkCD is WB1.3 and is not suitable.
The Mountlist file is...
/* AmiCDROM filesystem */
Handler = Ram:CD1/cdrom-handler
Stacksize = 10000
Priority = 10
GlobVec = -1
Mount = 1
Startup = "DEVICE=cd.device UNIT=0 ML T R"
The version of Mount should be 38 or above (use 'Version Mount' to
check).
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