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- From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: CDTV Boot disk for ParNet
- Message-ID: <69239@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 12:36:09 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1dn38gINNg4l@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>
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- >I am trying to use a CDTV with my A3000 via Parnet (the A3000 Multimedia
- >offer). I have it working with the FF CDROM, but a couple of questions:
- >
- >1) is there a version of Parnet that doesn't generate a host of Enforcer
- >hits under 2.x on the A3000?
-
- Dunno.. I don't have a 3000, but I use Parnet to connect my CDTV to
- my 2500 and use the thing almost daily and it works fine for me.
-
- >
- >2) What is required to create a stable CDTV boot floppy that will allow me to
- >access other CDROMs through ParNet. Alternately, is there a way to keep the
- >CDTV from rebooting when you place another CDROM in it?
- >
-
- I took a copy of an original WB1.3 disk out of my original 1.3
- enhancer box, and stripped off some extraneous stuff I didn't need
- and then put the various bits of Parnet's distribution onto it.
- "netpnet-server" into its c: directory.
- "parnet.device" into its devs: directory.
- the mountlist for "net" at the tail end of devs:mountlist
- "netpnet-handler" into its l: directory
- Then I modified the floppy's startup-sequence to call a script
- called "parnet_switch" which I found on the Hypermedia Concepts
- Fish CD ROM, which I also copied to the 1.3 boot floppy.
-
- The script looks like this:
- >NETPNET-SERVER UNIT 0
- >echo "Activating ParNet Now ... You Must Reboot to"
- >echo "use the parallel port for printer. The CDTV "
- >echo "is now ParNet Unit 1. "
- >MOUNT NET:
- >ENDCLI
-
- Having done all of that, I shove the floppy into CDTV's floppy
- drive, boot up the machine, run the similar Parnet software on my 2500
- via an icon, when both of them have initialized, they handshake
- with each other and voila... a network.
-
- I can then shove any kind of CD ROM into the CD drive on CDTV,
- or eject one and insert another one. Since CDTV was booted up from
- a floppy workbench and not from a cD ROM, it ignores the ejection
- and insertion of other CDs and never reboots itself unless I
- power it off/on or use its reset switch on purpose.
-
- I've used this method to boot the machine and then load in GIF
- pictures from Walnut Creek CDROM's "GIFs Galore" package (6000
- pictures on one CD) and sat here for literally hours loading them
- in and viewing them on my 2500 via ADPro and Firecracker24 without
- incident.
-
- I've uploaded via my 2500's serial port/modem directly from my
- Parnetted CDTV's CD ROM drive, so that works fine too.
-
- >I have compared files on the Fish CDROM vs a standard 1.3 boot floppy and
- >accounted for all differences I can think of, but still can't create a CDTV
- >boot floppy that doesn't crash within the first few minutes of use.
-
- Does it crash just sitting there doing nothing? or is there some
- particular sequence of actions you take to repeatedly crash it?
- Or one particular program you run that always causes it to crash?
- >
- >Thanks,
- >Kent Polk: Southwest Research Institute
- >Internet : kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu
-
- Hope this helps,
- Harv
-