Скачать или смотреть The Amiga911 boot disk Part 4: Installing Workbench + BetterWB directly from ADF image files.

Warning! This is a highly unprofessional video which may contain a couple of fails :-)

Here you can see how to install Workbench directly from ADF images by using some virtual floppy drives, but have in mind that this requires a 020 or higher CPU. A couple of assigns has to be made so that the Workbench installer can find certain files it needs on the Install3.1 disk. The video also shows how BetterWB can be installed on top of Workbench by using the mounted ADF images directly, but since the install script by default uses SYS: as destination for extracting the zip archives, the script has to be modified since SYS: is assigned to Ram:System after booting an Amiga911 disk. All that's required, is to simply replace all occurrences of SYS: with the device name of the Workbench partition (in my case DH0:).

Everything was done on a real Amiga 600 with the following specs:
A603 Chip RAM expansion
ACA630 accelerator card
Kickstart 3.1 (softkicked)
2GB SanDisk Compact Flash card + IDE-CF adapter
4GB Transcend Compact Flash card + PCMCIA-CF adapter


Please note the following about this video:

1. The video output used from the Amiga is composite, and this explains the rather lousy image quality. I tried several other solutions, but composite turned out to be the most reliable one.

2. The reason why the screen flashes sometimes is because my Amiga is accessing the Transcend CF card connected to the PCMCIA port, this only happens when using composite video output on my A600.

3. You may notice that the DiskImageGui window is open almost all the time in this video, but it really doesn't have to be. You can quit and start it again at any time, and it will not affect the mounted virtual drives in any way.

4. It is quite possible that only the C and Libs dirs on the Install3.1 disk needs to be assigned to the system.

5. I had to rename the BetterWB ADF images from MISC31_#1.adf, TOOLS31_#2.adf & BONUS31_#3.adf to MISC31_D1.adf, TOOLS31_D2.adf & BONUS31_D3.adf since the hash character shouldn't really be used in file names of files that are going to be used with an Amiga.

6. Have in mind that the changes done to the Install_BetterWB script are permanent!


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