Getting my A1200 up & running... help!

[Brian]

There's 2 ways of installing OS3.9... either "OS3.9 update installation over OS3.5" or "OS3.9 full installation over OS3.0 or empty HD". So if you get the system to read the CDRom (from bootdisk) then you don't need a system on the harddrive in order to install OS3.9.

(I usually trow in OS3.x and a CDFS on the harddrive to get hold of the CDrom and then when the system can read the CD I just install over the hole thing).

[Brian]

@Hyperspeed

I love the OS3.9 now that I'm starting to get use to it... still have a 2.1 and 3.1 machine but it's just a metter of time before one more of those gets 3.9.

Yes both 3.5 and 3.9 reset once in the boot in order to load in the new ROM and boot of with it.

With a eFlash card the ROM could be saved onto that and the reset wouldn't have to occure (I'm getting such a thing for my A4000 to remove reset and initialyze USB at bootup).

The delay on scsi.device have always been there for "SCSI only" users with 3.1ROM... good thing you can either make a small hack too fool the computer or as in my case just put a drive there to keep it happy.

Boottime for my A4000 system (CSPPC060, IDE and OS3.9) is well under those 30sec you're talking about and the boottime on my A1200 system (BPPC040, SCSI and OS3.9) is still faster than booting up a relatively clean Windows98 on a 466Mhz PC.