Ok, sorted it now, i have a 40gb sfs/00 boot, 7gb swap and the rest is the jfxs file system working great and boots fast aswell love it now.

yes 7gb was the size of the swap and yes it was used for 4.0 before, whats the best way to re-use it, remove partitions then reboot, does the manual tell you how to use the new file system as i did'nt see that in there but will have another look later, and i will try the 512 block size as i would realy like to try this.

I have finaly recived my os4.1 from amikit now upon installing ing the os it asks if you want to install or upgrade, i have done a new install but wanted to use the new file system, so i made 3 partitions, the first was a 40gb main then a 7gb swap then the 3 was the rest of the drive which was a 160gb hdd now when i select the new filesystem which is rfs i think(no on a1 at work now sorry) i can make the partions and save them, reset system then i cant see them to format them.

Mow how do i see them under the instalation process to format them and use them, anyone know?

@Mikey_C

Yes mike i did use your samba site thats how i got it to this stage just the fact that i have vista and it need passwords unlike xp or 2000

I have gaot samba installed and i now need to have passwords can anyone help me on how to do this please?

Ohand i cant get swat to work either

How do i compile under the os4 the software says to use ./****(stars mean prog to run) but when i try this nothing found do i need to install an sdk or something, never progged on the amiga before except amos.

Hi All,

I have got 2 x sony 1.44 floppys in my A1 but i can only use 1, is it possible to use 2 and will they still only format 720 or can they format 1.44?

@caver99

Yeh thats what i am going to do, should be here soon (i hope),

@caver99

Whwn it was borght from eytech we could not get it to work, rang eytech and they sent a new u-boot rom and the my mate and his son(co owners who had teh board building the system) rang them to ask how to change it and were told to use a small flat screwdriver and prise it but they ripped the socked off of the board and eytech did'nt want to know anymore and only this year spoke to the french amigacenter (realy nice chap) and they repaired it for 80euros.
Thats why i an not sure if i will ever find oure reg info again aswell.

@caver99

do all the pre ones(1,2,3,4) need to be installed before the final?
I have contacted Hyperon about my regestration, as all i have been able to find is the os4 cd and one that i put an update on, the os 4 cd is from eytech and never been regestered but i was lucky to find the cd after all this long time, bont know if i will be able to find my paper work tho, will have to see if hyperon get back to me of just wait till os4.1 arrives, all it was i have just got an ITE IT8212 IDE controller and cant use it till 4.1 arrives of i use an update

I have have only 1 update and cant get any help from hyperon, what can i do? the only update i have is 4.26, do i need to install all or can i just install the final and if/when hyperon get back to me, if not do i have to get os4.1(just waiting for it to arrive) or can anyone help me?

@caver99

Its cool, to finaly see the a1 up and running since it was bought in 2002 and i have never had it running
Just trying to find software to run on it

@caver99

I did setenv diskboot boota and now my system is working very nicely indeed

Thanks to everyone for the help

@caver99

I have indeed repalced my sis card for a radion 9250.

I have installed OS4.0 to my Harddrive(love os4 now)

Now i not sure how to get the system to boot straight into os4, when the a1 is switched on it checks the ide ports 0 and 1, then drops to ], i have been looking at the help and found that if i type BOOTA it boots my system nicely, looking on the web i have found that it might be setenv and i might have to

setenv boot_command
setenv menu; run menuboot_cmd
setenv boot_method boota
saveenv


or something simular, is this right or should there be different, sorry but i am a total NOOB to the A1.

@caver99

Ok, tried it this moring and looking through the help system found that if i type boota i can get os4 up and running, so how do i get this command to run from power on?

@caver99

Yes, i have done that not sure is there is anything i have to do in the U-Boot tho

@caver99

ok, i am useing the internal ide ports and if i boot from one of the updates i can install os4.0 but how the hell do i get my hdd to once its been installed, i just get the screen that shous whats on the ide 0 and ide 1 then drops to the prompt?
is there a setenv or something i have to set?
when i boot from the update cd, os4 looks beautiful i can wiat till i can just switch on and its there

@caver99

How do i enable UDMA mode?

@caver99

Ok, not sure whats going on with me A1 then, i have also downloaded the debian boot cd, if i set the setenv variables i can get it to start to boot beu then i get kernal panic is this anything that might say something tio someone?

@BillE
Yeh it just sits there saying Loading done, now launching kickstart.

I have just recived my Ati 9250 so thats in it aswell.

I will have toi have a look at the thermal tape tomorow possibly, and i will get some new past and i have some new cpu heat sinks and fans i might try that are raated for faster cpus.