Putting Kickstart 1.3 and Workbench 1.3 on one disk for Amiga 1000

[dir_marillion]

Hello,
Please let me know if there is a easy guide to put Kickstart 1.3 and Workbench 1.3 on one disk, for Amiga 1000.

Thank you very much

[T_hairy_bootson]

There was a custom hacked kickstart 1.2 called HQC kickstart that apparently had workbench 1.2 on it as well, so the scrolly menu said anyways never did get it to run though.

[stet]

This thread over on amiga.org has the info you're looking for, including a link to a free utility for creating a "kickwork" adf file (which you can then transfer to a physical floppy for use on an A1000):
http://www.amiga.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&order=ASC&topic_id=41757&forum=9

[prowler]

Hi dir_marillion,

I have uploaded the following files to the Zone for you to provide some information and help with this:

MakeBoth1.2p.zip
The original KickBench. Instructions and command line utilities required to add Workbench to an Amiga 1000 Kickstart disk (requires DiskEd). Versions 1.1, 1.2 beta 4 and 1.2 prerelease included.

KickBench1.2.zip and KickBench1.3.zip
Instructions and command-line utilities required to add Workbench to an Amiga 1000 Kickstart disk. Versions 1.2 and 1.3

mkkickwork.zip
A shell program to create an Amiga 1000 Kickstart disk with bootable OFS filesystem from a Kickstart ROM image file. See the thread linked to by stet above for details.

WriteKickDisk1.3.lha
Another shell program to make an Amiga 1000 Kickstart disk from a Kickstart ROM image file. Version 1.3

Good luck! :)

prowler

[Ratte]

The result of my work (amiga.org - thread).

< Kickwork3.1 - Movie > (http://www.a1k.org/download/area51/OLD/ftp/KICKWORK31.MPG)

Kickstart3.1 crunched with lzma from 512kb down to 256kb.
Kickstart includes my trackdisk-patch for OS3.1 kickwork.
Disk includes some wb3.1 stuff and sysinfo3.24 for testing.

lzma is a very good cruncher, but it takes about 6 minutes to decrunch the "backup-image" from wom to the first 512kb of fastmem.

Very useless funstuff .. again. :D

[prowler]

The result of my work (amiga.org - thread).

< Kickwork3.1 - Movie > (http://www.a1k.org/download/area51/OLD/ftp/KICKWORK31.MPG)

Kickstart3.1 crunched with lzma from 512kb down to 256kb.
Kickstart includes my trackdisk-patch for OS3.1 kickwork.
Disk includes some wb3.1 stuff and sysinfo3.24 for testing.

lzma is a very good cruncher, but it takes about 6 minutes to decrunch the "backup-image" from wom to the first 512kb of fastmem.

Very useless funstuff .. again. :D

Hey Ratte, I could swear it's getting dark outside while it's booting up! :shocked

[dir_marillion]

Thank you very much, now I have all the nessesary tools and Instructions to create my own kickstart-workbench 1.3 disk.
I would suggest to all to download these files from the Zone, because you may need them someday :-)

TjLaser helped me too.

I will try it in the weekend and I will let you know the results.

Ratte, I didn't understand, what exactly you did with kickstart 3.1 ?

[dir_marillion]

Ok Ratte, I saw the video !! Impressive !!

[chiark]

Ratte, that is insane. You need help :D

I'm going to try making a joint kickstart/workbench/mount disk for my 1000 and Xebec hard disk... Should be fun :D

[dir_marillion]

Chiark, I think it cannot be done, amiga always is trying to boot from floppy :nuts

[Ratte]

Chiark, I think it cannot be done, amiga always trying to boot from floppy :nuts

i think that he wants a kickstart that is booting into dos (instead of workbench) that mounts a nonautobooting hdd and transfers control to hdd.

(could be ideal for bbs-systems based on a1000 .. 20 years earlier)

thats possible ... kickwork has around 550kb free for drivers mounting etc.

[chiark]

That's exactly it!

Turn on the 1000 from cold and it wants a kickstart disk. Insert the modified kickwork disk to load kickstart, then boot as if it's a bootable disk with a startup-sequence (and supporting files such as devs:mountlist) that mounts the hard drive, then assigns everything over there, and transfers control to it.

So only 1 disk needed to wake up the hard disk from cold rather than the current 2 :D

Looks like MKKickWork will do *just* what I want! Excellent! Erinomainen!

[dir_marillion]

What is MKKickWork?

[chiark]

have you looked in the thread or the zone? :D

[dir_marillion]

I've checked all....Amiga 1000 is still a great machine !!

I've just realized that the last 3 weeks, I am dealing only with my Amiga 1000 at my spare time :crazy

[chiark]

Well, I used Quickstart to extract the kickstart 1.3 from my machine, and then Piru's mkkickwork.exe

Piru has kindly updated it to work with Kickstart 1.3, as it was requesting a 2.04 library to call fstat (apparently this is a SAS/C thing - weird).

There's something very satisfying about doing it all on the 1000 itself :D

So a single disk will now kickstart, boot and transfer control to the hard disk which then loads all the bits I want, including workbench. Very cool :D .

[dir_marillion]

Which kickstart do you have with this trick Chiark ?