English Amiga Board - View Single Post - Install of Workbench 3.1 Keeps failing on last disk

Foebane · 16 February 2018, 08:47

I 100% repeat what emufan says, HDFs are the best way to create Amiga hard drives, as using a folder on your host PC as a drive will only cause, for example, filename conflicts between WB and the host operating system, like extracting .lha archives, for a start. The latter is best done onto an HDF.

Simple HDFs that don't require preparation will do, and afterwards, you can move onto the more versatile RDB mode and Dynamic HDFs, which allow for more extensive and faster use whilst keeping the file size small, and whilst they involve a bit of preparation with WB's HDToolBox, you can always do that another time once you've got your install up and running. And migrating your installation of WB from one type of hard drive file to a better one is as easy as a "copy all" command.

16 February 2018, 08:47	#7
Foebane Banned Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Cardiff, UK Age: 51 Posts: 2,871	I 100% repeat what emufan says, HDFs are the best way to create Amiga hard drives, as using a folder on your host PC as a drive will only cause, for example, filename conflicts between WB and the host operating system, like extracting .lha archives, for a start. The latter is best done onto an HDF. Simple HDFs that don't require preparation will do, and afterwards, you can move onto the more versatile RDB mode and Dynamic HDFs, which allow for more extensive and faster use whilst keeping the file size small, and whilst they involve a bit of preparation with WB's HDToolBox, you can always do that another time once you've got your install up and running. And migrating your installation of WB from one type of hard drive file to a better one is as easy as a "copy all" command.