Re: Installing 3.1 on external scsi hard drive. How long does it take?



"Gerald Pine" <gdpine@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:op.u1aupwffitvz4p@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Okay. New, but related question. How do I see multiple hd partitions?

Amiga OS 3.1 again. I have a hard drive with four formatted partitions on it. HDToolBox sees all of them and shows them as SDH0: though SDH3:

SDH0: is mounted when I boot. However, SDH1: through SDH3: are not. I thought maybe I needed to create an entry in mountlist, but I don't see any entries there for any external hard drives or cd drives, only for the single internal hd. So apparently you don't have to do anything to have the first partition recognized. What do I need to do to make the other 3 partitions visible after I boot up?

Gerald


On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 08:31:19 -0700, Gerald Pine <gdpine@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I have a 2000 HD with a GVP HC-8 scsi controller card populated with 8 Mb of ram. I have been trying to install OS 3.1 on an external scsi drive on the first 2Gb partition. Everything is set up for 3.1 as that is already installed on a couple of other external hard drives connected to the machine. I'm even using the partition that I'm trying to install 3.1 on for storage of about 400 Mb of files.

When I run the install program from the Install diskette, it seems to start okay with the usual questions, but then it seems to hang up with the message Preparing Icons. The computer is not locked up. I just get the clock symbol indicating that the computer is doing something and it just stays at 8% done until I stop the install program. Which brings up my question. How long should the install take typically? This does not seem normal to me, but then I have no prior experience installing the os. Should I just be patient and wait longer (I've waited a couple of hours twice)? If not, do you have any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong?

Gerald


In HDToolbox, highlight the partition,
then select `change`, and then tick
automount..save all changes, then reboot.

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