Workbench on amiga CD?

[G.Longsword]

hi Folks,
I am the proud owner of a Amiga500+ (kick2.05, 2MB Chipram) and a Commodore A570 cd-Rom. So the system runs also as a CDTV.
I never wanted to connect a Harddisk to my Amiga cause i would miss the change of floppies, but it would be nice to burn a complete Harddisk (workbench
plus some games installed) on a CD, and the A570 will recognise it or boot it.
I would create an harddisk with winuae and install the programs in that partition, but how do I have to burn the CD on the PC side, in order to be recognized with my real Amiga?
thanks in advance
G.Longsword

[thomas]

I doubt that you will find a PC program which can write a bootable Amiga CD. Better use an Amiga program. As you are running WinUAE anyway you can even write the CD from inside WinUAE.

MakeCD can burn bootable Amiga CDs. You need the CDTV trademark file to make the CD bootable. It is contained in the CD32 developers kit.

http://www.estamos.de/makecd/
http://www.cd32-allianz.de/entwickler/entwickler?

[clauddio]

Originally Posted by thomas

I doubt that you will find a PC program which can write a bootable Amiga CD. Better use an Amiga program. As you are running WinUAE anyway you can even write the CD from inside WinUAE.

MakeCD can burn bootable Amiga CDs. You need the CDTV trademark file to make the CD bootable. It is contained in the CD32 developers kit.

http://www.estamos.de/makecd/
http://www.cd32-allianz.de/entwickler/entwickler?

any pc program can do AMiga CDS booteables
you need to make the iso file first on the amiga side
for example I use ISOCD 1.04 by Commodore to create the iso file then I burn the iso using nero or another win proggy

[thomas]

ISOCD is a command line tool, isn't it?

MakeCD can do everything ISOCD can do, too. I has a GUI, can create ISO files, can write directly to CD or can write ISO files to CD.

[T_hairy_bootson]

I have used MakeCD with the cdtv tm file to make bootable CDTV disks in the past.

Make sure to include the RMTM command in the startup sequence if you want to boot on a real cdtv or in cdtv boot mode on the a570.

[clauddio]

Originally Posted by thomas

ISOCD is a command line tool, isn't it?

nope is not a command line
ISOCD has a gui and it is really easy to use to compile isos for cdtv or cd32
makecd is too complicated

[FOL]

Originally Posted by clauddio

nope is not a command line
ISOCD has a gui and it is really easy to use to compile isos for cdtv or cd32
makecd is too complicated

Yep, best way to make bootable Amiga CD's.