Yes as I said in my original post, install BB1, 2 and 3 first (although BB3 is now 'growing').
Nice specs, yes HighGFX 1024x768 in 64 colours should run very well on your setup.
Have you thought about ditching the IDE (blanking it off) and using an external SCSI HD?
What about a power supply for that lot?
Hey NovaCoder,
I understand the instructions to install 3.9, then BoingBags 1, 2 & 3 in order, but I am still having problems. I am using an 8gb Compact Flash card in an IDE to CF adapter, connected to the A1200's IDE controller, because I wanted to reduce heat above my IndivisionAGA display enhancer. Also, the CF card is twice the size of the 4gb hdd I was using.
I have the CF card partitioned into 5 partitions. 1st one is bootable for the OS3.9 and is about .9gb in size, 2nd partition is also bootable and the same size for use as a backup boot partition and this is the one that I am doing all of my experimental BoingBag3 installs onto, the remaining 3 partitions are all about 2gb (a little less) and they are labeled Work:, Play: and Extra: for containing programs and data.
I have been very careful in my installation proceedures, but I must be missing something, some step that I have missed, because I keep coming up with the same errors, which I will list exactly below.
At the end of BoingBag3 the instructions say to alter the startup-sequence, so here is a partial listing of my startup-sequence showing exactly what I have tried. (this is at the top before anything else)
IF Exists C:IDEFix
C:IDEFix
Endif
;BEGIN BoingBag3
SYS:C/LoadModule L:FastFileSystem L:RAM-Handler L:Shell-Seg DEVS:scsi.device Libs:icon.library Libs:workbench.library NOREBOOT
SYS:C/SetPatch SKIPROMMODULES filesystem,icon,ram-handler,scsi,shell,workbench QUIET
;END BoingBag3
The original setpatch line has been removed from the script.
Then I turn off the computer and wait for 5 to 10 minutes, or on one attempt, I waited all night. Then I coldboot and get these errors.
"Loading DEVS:scsi.device failed: object not found"
"LoadModule failed returncode 10"
So, I then boot into my other boot partition and remove the "DEVS:scsi.device" part of the LoadModule line and also remove the "scsi" part of the SKIPROMMODULES line and reboot. Then I get this error.
"Loading filesystem failed: object already exists"
"LoadModule failed returncode 10"
So I then boot into my other partition again and remove the "L:FastFileSystem" part of the LoadModule line and the "filesystem" part of the SKIPROMMODULES line and reboot. I then get this error.
"ram-handler version 44 already resident"
"Loading ram-handler failed: object already exists"
"LoadModule failed returncode 10"
So, I again reboot into my other boot partition and remove ..... you get the idea. This time when I reboot, there are no error messages and I get all the way to the Workbench. I have used the "Find" feature to look for scsi.device on my system and it does not exist, but is mentioned in my "DEVS:NSDPatch.cfg", "DEVS:NSDPatch.cfg-BB3.9-1", and "DEVS:NSDPatch.cfg.BB39-2" as well as being listed in the icon files of some other DOS drivers like DEVS:Storage/DOSdrivers/CD0:, etc.
I find it hard to believe that others have not come across this same problem, since I am using the same BoingBag 1, 2 and 3 installation scripts as everyone else, but I for some reason don't have any scsi.device installed on to my system anywhere. The problem with the RAM-Handler and FastFileSystem modules not being able to be loaded by LoadModule is also puzzling.
I have not transferred my "log-files" from my Amiga to my PC, or I would attempt to attach them to this posting.
HELP!
P.S. I just unarchived IDEfix97 from my aminet CD's and took a look at it and it appears to be an old fix that has been superseded by newer fixes for TD64 being added to systems to allow >4gb devices. I wonder if I install it, if it will fail to install due to the missing scsi.device, or if it contains a version of my missing scsi.device and could fix part of my problems.
What could be more fun that working on my Amigas on Christmas Eve? (well, probably a lot of things, but I really want to figure out creating a fast and stable OS3.9 A1200/060)
Edit: @NovaCoder, I do have a 150watt PSU running my A1200 and I would not want to blank off the internal IDE and use an external SCSI hdd instead of the internal 8gb CF card. It is my understanding that the Read/Write to and from the CF should be faster and my efforts are to get the fastest stable AGA OS3.9 install that I can create.