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From: sdowdy@triton.unm.edu (Stephen Dowdy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Updating Kickstart
Summary: use SYS:Tools/update2.x
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Date: 28 Nov 90 05:12:40 GMT
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In article <CIRE.90Nov26170827@dustbin.cisco.com> cire@dustbin.cisco.com (Eric B. Decker) writes:
}
}The original Kickstart disk I got with my 3000 was corrupt.  But the
}version installed on the harddisk works just fine.  I got a replacement
}disk from the dealer which turns out to be a more recent version.  What
}is the generally accepted mechanism for getting this newer version
}onto the harddisk?
}

You are supposed to boot the kickstart off floppy, use the A3000 Install
disk and click on some icon or another.  I dug around the A3000 Install
disk to find a script that does:

	Makefiles df0: 2.0 WB_2.x:Devs/kickstart

and executed this from a cli.  I also noticed that in SYS:Tools
there is the same script "update2.x" along with "Makefiles".

Now, i am not technically knowledgable in the underlyings of amigados
but you *should* be able to do the following....

	cd SYS:Devs
	rename kickstart kickstart.36.141	; or appropriate #
	sys:tools/update2.x

The "rename" is only important in the event somehow kickstart is still "open"
by the system (you don't want to trash it if it is)

Again, i had still booted on floppy kickstart/a3000 install when i updated
so you're on your own, but i'd be willing to give it a try.
(I just don't like to execute "icons" and scripts without knowing what they do)

--stephen
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