How to get AmiTCP on a boot disk

[Mrs Beanbag]

Just received my new SSD in the post this morning, been pulling my hair out all day since I turned my Amiga on this afternoon to find the floppy disk drive throwing a wobbly, seems to be more or less working again now though (as long as it's upside-down). Two spare floppy drives also refused to work, will try a head cleaner tomorrow.

But second things first. I want to re-install my old hard drive contents onto my new drive, which I have archived and sent to my PC via network card. Now how do I get my stuff back again, when the Amiga has a fresh HDD in it? The problem is AmiTCP doesn't seem to fit on a disk. I don't have any other workbench install disks. I also have no idea how I managed to get AmiTCP onto my Amiga in the first place. I have no CD drive.

See how big the amitcp binary is with just the db/ folder, bin/ folder (i think? and you probably don't need many of these, just startnet) and with only your needed .device file. See if you can fit all that on the disk, and then in your startnet script set the assigns and see if it'll run for ya

[Mrs Beanbag]

ok so it wants WaitForPort, which I also copied from rexxc, now:

AmiTCP:AmiTCP failed returncode 20

Hmm...somehow I doubt you have easily accessible snoopdos to see what the problem is behind the secenes. Maybe one of the assigns wasn't done?

[Mrs Beanbag]

aha, in fact snoopdos does work straight from the hard drive (i've still got the old one in for now, well that's where I'm copying amiTCP from afterall)

I'm having to copy a lot of libraries, I hope I don't run out of room again.

[Mrs Beanbag]

still not working, no more clues in Snoopdos either...

[thomas]

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[Mrs Beanbag]

aha! thank you! right, I can get to the network now. only problem is, I can't run HDToolBox, says it can't load layout.gadget v44! LIES! It's definitely there, and it's definitely version 44. I've done the required assign and everything. Snoopdos shows it loading it OK in LIBS:gadgets, then for some reason looks in LIBS: where it fails and PROGDIR: where it also fails. Very odd, since it works from HDD. I'll have to try a more thorough startup-sequence I think..

[Mrs Beanbag]

right... if I call "AddDataTypes", which is about the only different thing I can see in the startup-sequence, it (HDToolBox) does do something different. It crashes with the error #80000004 and I have to reboot.

I don't know what I'm missing here.

[jPV]

How about this NetworkBootDisk?

[thomas]

Originally Posted by Mrs Beanbag

I can't run HDToolBox, says it can't load layout.gadget v44!

HDToolbox needs complete OS 3.9 which definitely does not fit on a floppy disk.

Either run OS 3.1 version of HDToolbox or use your emergency disk to boot OS 3.9 from CD.

[Mrs Beanbag]

umm pretty sure I don't have OS 3.9. don't have a CD drive either.

I found HDInstTools, it is very small and not only fits on a floppy, it fits on the AmiTCP disk as well, according to some thread on Amiga.org it's actually better than HDToolBox. So I'm good to go as soon as my floppy drive warms up again. Really weird, put a disk in it again just now and it just goes "whurrrrrrrrr", a really strong motor sound and no actual reading of the disk. I've put the heating on, hope this helps. It did the same yesterday but then it worked in the evening.