Classic Workbench CF versions

[Zetr0]

Hello there Classic Workbench Team,

After discussing workbench installs upon CF cards (see prbs.hardware setting up CompactFlash IDE/PCMCIA)

Recently a few members have been experimenting with the idea of a Classic Workbench being run from a Fat formatted CF card via PCMCIA adapter.

The primary boot is from floppy whereby it has mounted the Fat95 system to read the card and then hands-over booting from there.

I would like to ask if its possible in making several CF CWB installs that initially boot from floppy but then once the fat driver is in to then continue loading from the CF card.

Personally I would love to see a few versions of WB 3.1 (LITE and PRO) using Newicons or MUI or even both LOL and obviously WB2 & 3

I appreicate any ideas and theories into pushing Classic Workbench further, if there is anyway that I or other could help I would be honoured to.

[Retro-Nerd]

I've talked with Zetr0 about this and thought it would be a nice idea. Not only as an real hdd alternative, but also as a portable device. A cool CWB setup & tons of WHDLoad games, easily portable from one to another amiga.

[Bloodwych]

Interesting idea.

As with the programmers ClassicWB version requested a while back, this is very much a customized and specialised requirement.

With this in mind, I'd be happy for anyone to create such packs and then pass them on to me for legalization and upload to the ClassicWB site.

I myself am only interested in maintaining the main packages already available, which are the default installs.

[Zetr0]

Excellent Bloodwych, thanks for your support its really appreciated.

now all that need to be done is develope a CWB setup to run from a FAT filesys!

[ppill]

Originally Posted by Zetr0

Excellent Bloodwych, thanks for your support its really appreciated.

now all that need to be done is develope a CWB setup to run from a FAT filesys!

Using file.device from the xfs package you could mount the HDF file as a drive from a FAT formatted CF. It shouldn't be too difficult to write a startup-sequence that would mount everything and continue the boot process from the HDF. I'll be getting a PCMCIA CF adapter next week so I might tinker with this but right now I've got an other amiga project (Hombre) keeping me busy

Maybe someone else?

[Zetr0]

i think that retro-nerd is close to getting a working prototye up... but it would be really cool for more input...

[ppill]

Always happy to help. Is there a working alpha/beta version?

[Zetr0]

I believe that Retro-Nerd has a basic OS 3.0 system running as we speak

[Retro-Nerd]

With the great help from Zetr0, this bootdisk startup-sequence seems to work:

C:SetPatch >NIL:
C:Version >NIL:
C:AddBuffers >NIL: DF0: 25
C:Assign >NIL: ENV: RAM:
C:Assign >NIL: T: RAM:
mount CF0:
Assign >NIL: SYS: cf0:WBench
Assign >NIL: c: SYS:c/
Assign >NIL: libs: SYS:libs/
Assign >NIL: l: SYS:l/
Assign >NIL: devs: SYS:devs/
Assign >NIL: utilities: SYS:utilities/
Assign >NIL: REXX: S:
Assign >NIL: PRINTERS: DEVS:Printers
Assign >NIL: KEYMAPS: DEVS:Keymaps
Assign >NIL: LOCALE: SYS:Locale
Assign >NIL: LIBS: SYS:Classes ADD
Assign >NIL: HELP: LOCALE:Help DEFER
Assign S: CF0:Wbench/S
Execute CF0:Wbench/S/Startup-sequence

@ppill:

This HDF mounting sounds very interesting, i'm looking forward to see this stuff working on my PCMCIA card. Maybe you can do a nice CWB setup for us.

[ppill]

C:SetPatch >NIL:
C:Version >NIL:
C:AddBuffers >NIL: DF0: 25
C:Assign >NIL: ENV: RAM: ;that's not an issue but usually you assign ENV to ram:env/ so you need to make a directory first

C:Assign >NIL: T: RAM:
mount CF0:
Assign >NIL: SYS: cf0:WBench
Assign >NIL: c: SYS:c/
Assign >NIL: libs: SYS:libs/
Assign >NIL: l: SYS:l/
Assign >NIL: devs: SYS:devs/
Assign >NIL: utilities: SYS:utilities/
Assign >NIL: REXX: S:
Assign >NIL: PRINTERS: DEVS:Printers
Assign >NIL: KEYMAPS: DEVS:Keymaps
Assign >NIL: LOCALE: SYS:Locale
Assign >NIL: LIBS: SYS:Classes ADD
Assign >NIL: HELP: LOCALE:Help DEFER
Assign S: CF0:Wbench/S
Execute CF0:Wbench/S/Startup-sequence ;how does this s-s look like?

[Retro-Nerd]

It's the standard WB 3.0 startup-sequence. As for the ENV case: This was not my entry, i used this from the bootdisk, which comes with my PCMCIA adapter. I will change it as you said.

; $VER: startup-sequence 39.9 (9.8.92)

C:SetPatch QUIET
C:Version >NIL:
C:AddBuffers >NIL: DF0: 15
FailAt 21

C:MakeDir RAM:T RAM:Clipboards RAM:ENV RAM:ENV/Sys
C:Copy >NIL: ENVARC: RAM:ENV ALL NOREQ

Resident >NIL: C:Assign PURE
Resident >NIL: C:Execute PURE

Assign >NIL: ENV: RAM:ENV
Assign >NIL: T: RAM:T
Assign >NIL: CLIPS: RAM:Clipboards
Assign >NIL: REXX: S:
Assign >NIL: PRINTERS: DEVS:Printers
Assign >NIL: KEYMAPS: DEVS:Keymaps
Assign >NIL: LOCALE: SYS:Locale
Assign >NIL: LIBS: SYS:Classes ADD
Assign >NIL: HELP: LOCALE:Help DEFER

IF NOT EXISTS SYS:Fonts
  Assign FONTS:
EndIF

BindDrivers
C:Mount >NIL: DEVS:DOSDrivers/~(#?.info)

IF EXISTS DEVS:Monitors
  IF EXISTS DEVS:Monitors/VGAOnly
    DEVS:Monitors/VGAOnly
  EndIF

  C:List >NIL: DEVS:Monitors/~(#?.info|VGAOnly) TO T:M LFORMAT "DEVS:Monitors/%s"
  Execute T:M
  C:Delete >NIL: T:M
EndIF

SetEnv Workbench $Workbench
SetEnv Kickstart $Kickstart
UnSet Workbench
UnSet Kickstart

C:IPrefs

C:ConClip

Path >NIL: RAM: C: SYS:Utilities SYS:Rexxc SYS:System S: SYS:Prefs SYS:WBStartup SYS:Tools SYS:Tools/Commodities

IF EXISTS S:User-Startup
  Execute S:User-Startup
EndIF

Resident Execute REMOVE
Resident Assign REMOVE

C:LoadWB
EndCLI >NIL:

[ppill]

; $VER: startup-sequence 39.9 (9.8.92)

C:SetPatch QUIET ;You've already done this in the previous s-s
C:Version >NIL: ; and this
C:AddBuffers >NIL: DF0: 15 ; same here
FailAt 21 ; don't need it

C:MakeDir RAM:T RAM:Clipboards RAM:ENV RAM:ENV/Sys ;better do this in the previous s-s
C:Copy >NIL: ENVARC: RAM:ENV ALL NOREQ ; need to reassign this as it's pointing to the floppy

Resident >NIL: C:Assign PURE
Resident >NIL: C:Execute PURE

Assign >NIL: ENV: RAM:ENV ;do this in the previous s-s
Assign >NIL: T: RAM:T ; same here
Assign >NIL: CLIPS: RAM:Clipboards ; again
Assign >NIL: REXX: S: ; these assigns are already in place
Assign >NIL: PRINTERS: DEVS:Printers ; =
Assign >NIL: KEYMAPS: DEVS:Keymaps; =
Assign >NIL: LOCALE: SYS:Locale ; =
Assign >NIL: LIBS: SYS:Classes ADD ; =
Assign >NIL: HELP: LOCALE:Help DEFER ;= 

IF NOT EXISTS SYS:Fonts
Assign FONTS:
EndIF

BindDrivers
C:Mount >NIL: DEVSOSDrivers/~(#?.info)

IF EXISTS DEVS:Monitors ;replace from here
IF EXISTS DEVS:Monitors/VGAOnly ;
DEVS:Monitors/VGAOnly ;
EndIF ;

C:List >NIL: DEVS:Monitors/~(#?.info|VGAOnly) TO T:M LFORMAT "DEVS:Monitors/%s" ;
Execute T:M ;
Celete >NIL: T:M ;
EndIF ;to here with bindmonitors from aminet

SetEnv Workbench $Workbench
SetEnv Kickstart $Kickstart
UnSet Workbench
UnSet Kickstart

C:IPrefs

C:ConClip

Path >NIL: RAM: C: SYS:Utilities SYS:Rexxc SYS:System S: SYS:Prefs SYS:WBStartup SYS:Tools SYS:Tools/Commodities

IF EXISTS S:User-Startup
Execute S:User-Startup
EndIF

Resident Execute REMOVE
Resident Assign REMOVE

C:LoadWB
EndCLI >NIL:

[Retro-Nerd]

Many thanks for the hints, ppill. I will try this out. Yes, i saw the double assigns. But it causes no troubles, so far.

[ppill]

Originally Posted by Retro-Nerd

Many thanks for the hints, ppill. I will try this out. Yes, i saw the double assigns. But it causes no troubles, so far.

You're welcome.

[Retro-Nerd]

But i'm far away to be an expert, ppill. To be on the safe side: Can you post both corrected startup-sequences for the bootdisk & WB as files? I want to copy them over and try again.

[ppill]

Originally Posted by Retro-Nerd

But i'm far away to be an expert, ppill. To be on the safe side: Can you post both corrected startup-sequences for the bootdisk & WB as files? I want to copy them over and try again.

Just editing them now (you're a mind reader or somethin' ? )

[DamienD]

Hey Retro-Nerd,

Do the "Big Grin" Smiles in your post #11 also come across ok

hehehe

No honesty, good work my friend

[Retro-Nerd]

Originally Posted by DamienD

Hey Retro-Nerd,

Do the "Big Grin" Smiles in your post #11 also come across ok

hehehe

The typical smilie problem with the forum software. Looks funny, i know.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by Retro-Nerd

The typical smilie problem with the forum software. Looks funny, i know.

Use code instead of quote

[ppill]

C:SetPatch >NIL:
C:AddBuffers >NIL: DF0: 25

Resident >NIL: C:Assign PURE

C:MakeDir RAM:T RAM:Clipboards RAM:ENV RAM:ENV/Sys
Assign >NIL: ENV: RAM:ENV/
Assign >NIL: T: RAM:T/
Assign >NIL: CLIPS: RAM:Clipboards/

C:Mount CF0:
Assign >NIL: SYS: CF0:WBench/

Assign >NIL: ENVARC: SYS:Prefs/Env-Archive
C:Copy >NIL: ENVARC: RAM:ENV ALL NOREQ

Assign >NIL: C: SYS:C/
Assign >NIL: Libs: SYS:Libs/
Assign >NIL: L: SYS:L/
Assign >NIL: S: SYS:S/
Assign >NIL: Devs: SYS:Devs/
Assign >NIL: Utilities: SYS:Utilities/
Assign >NIL: Rexx: S:
Assign >NIL: Printers: DEVS:Printers/
Assign >NIL: Keymaps: DEVS:Keymaps/
Assign >NIL: Locale: SYS:Locale/
Assign >NIL: Libs: SYS:Classes/ ADD
Assign >NIL: Help: LOCALE:Help/ DEFER

Resident Assign REMOVE

C:BindDrivers
C:Mount >NIL: DEVS:DOSDrivers/~(#?.info)
C:BindMonitors
C:IPrefs
C:ConClip

Path >NIL: RAM: C: SYS:Utilities SYS:Rexxc SYS:System S: SYS:Prefs SYS:WBStartup SYS:Tools SYS:Tools/Commodities

IF EXISTS S:User-Startup
Execute S:User-Startup
EndIF

C:LoadWB
EndCLI >NIL:

This should work... fingers crossed

Before replacing the old s-s copy the two files ram:env/Workbench and ram:env/Kickstart to CF0:WBench/Prefs/Env-Archive/ after boot up; install BindMonitors (copy it to CF0:WBench/c/);

There's still room for improvement (mass assigns, moveSYS commands, botting from RAD: etc.) but this should be fine for now I guess