I recently resurrected my A5000 and then found this forum... and Wizzo3v15 IDEFS drivers!
Since I cannot burn EPROMs the next best thing is to smoothly boot from ADFS into IDEFS and be able to use additional partitions on my hard drive.
What did I do as basic setup
- Load the Wizzo drivers; no problem
- Format CF card(s) --> abandoned due to persistent problems like broken directories etc.
- Format a 'fresh' harddrive and create three partitions (499+511+511 versus my original 80MB)
Only three partitions make it easy to use another physical drive as well for backups - Changed my RO3.1 !HForm to include a large HD format specification
- ADFS format the first partition (:4) with !Hform, this gives a smaller LAU for the main partition
My setup is as follows:
- !Boot.!Run (the default ADFS boot obey script)
- first action in !Boot.!Run is to load IDEFS and set IDEFS as current filesystem
- second is setting <Boot$...>, <Root$...> and <System$...> to IDEFS: locations
- ... all other boot activities are relative to the IDEFS locations
- as a final action desktop is started which boots its own DeskBoot file from IDEFS
- !Boot.DeskBoot (my desktop Boot obey script)
- first action: if IDEFS is loaded, immediately RMKill ADFS and ADFSfiler
this leaves either ADFS or IDEFS as the only local disc filing system - ... do all the regular desktop boot stuff
- first action: if IDEFS is loaded, immediately RMKill ADFS and ADFSfiler
The only real disadvantage is losing access to the floppy by default - I amended my boot sequence to check for the control key to skip the IDEFS loading/ADFS unloading. The two additional partitions mainly hold games, archives and other non-essential stuff anyway.
PS: Paul (DutchAcorn) mentioned he may be able to burn a ROM for me, I may still take him up on that!