@Elwood

I tried. The OS installer doesn't like it and reboots.

@broadblues

Yes, it's like that. I just wanted to make it automated. The reason is that OS4 boots to ugly grey Workbench without drivers. Those are delivered to the system by my script, you know.

@Rigo

Anyway, thanks for your ideas, Simon.

@Rigo

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I cannot, the OS installer reboots right after it's finished with the installation.

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I almost yelled Hooray! But it seems the system falls back to using the WBStartup drawer if it exists AND the wbstartup.prefs does not exist at the same time...

@Rigo

Yes, I can create the wbstartup.prefs using my running installation anytime. And I can copy it to the empty hardfile easily.

But then, when the original installer starts installing OS on that hardfile, my wbstartup.prefs is overwritten.

And I am afraid I cannot change the original installer - especially when it's located on ISO.

So I think this wbstartup.prefs thingy is a dead end. Is there any other way?

Thanks Simon, but that's not the solution either.

In the 4 steps described above I have no chance to launch WBStartupCTRL or any other program. That's the essence of this puzzle, actually.

All I have is the hardfile to which I can copy some files BEFORE the OS installation takes place.

In OS3.x, I would create a WBStartup drawer on an empty hardfile and copy my script there. And then let the OS install itself. Then my script would be launched automatically even with "clean" OS install.

But what about OS4, is there any chance to execute a file which was present on the hardfile BEFORE the OS installation?

Maybe I was not clear enough. Here's the puzzle:

1. I have hardfile with my script
2. I boot the original BootFloppy.adf which runs the installer from the original AmigaOS4.1FE ISO
3. I install the OS to the hardfile (without formatting it), the installer reboots when finished
4. the OS4 boots from the hardfile

The question is how can I make this clean OS launch my script while the OS is booting for the first time?

I tried to copy my own SYS:Prefs/Env-Archive/Sys/wbstartup.prefs to the hardfile BEFORE the OS got installed on it, but the file was overwritten during the OS installation and replaced by the default one.

I also tried to remove a "D" attribute of my wbstartup.prefs so it could not be deleted/overwritten, but the OS installer did not like it and rebooted instead of finishing the installation.

Is there any other way of launching my script? I guess my own s:user-startup would get overwritten too...

@kas1e

The problem is that any of my custom wbstartup.prefs gets overwritten by the OS4 installation process.

@RIBDEVIL

That's NOT what I asked for :)

Strange question. Right :) I am experimenting with OS4 emulation and I would like to make the installation process more automated for beginners.

I have an hardfile with a script. I want to launch this script right after the OS41FE Classic is installed to this hardfile and the system starts from it for the first time.

Is that possible?

On OS3.x, I would simply place the script to WBStartup... but there is no such drawer in OS4 :)

Any ideas? Thanks a lot.

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