OS 3.9 installation issues

[SACC-guy]

Hahahaha... :lol: I'm putting you on the pay roll till I get this solved.  I promise to pay this forward to the community all jokes aside though.

@dschallock
SACC had a replacement floppy drive waiting for you at our last meeting...as discussed and as requested...sigh

BTW, our next meeting is this sunday 27th at 3pm (but some of us are meeting at 1pm)

[SACC-guy]

@Olds...Mike
Just to prove a point, we did install 3.9 on a 4000 at the last meeting.

[SACC-guy]

Actually Mike this has been a great learning experience for me.  Sometimes the hard way is a great way to learn a lot and I super appreciate your help!

@ Olds-mike
I didn't mean to stop the fun!
@dschallock
Keep trouble shooting on the forums...we all learn more!!!

M

[SACC-guy]

Okay then...
I went back and read the entire thread because this last entry really lost me.

Maybe if you start (as Mike suggested) by using the Keep it simple idea?
My first question is do you have the red(1st) 3.9 cd or the pink (2nd and corrected) 3.9 cd.
It seems that everything is good from 3.1 (very good) but when you created the ER disk to boot 3.9 the items copied are getting in the way of a correct boot.

Our overall experience says to watch for well known issues. one of the first issues was the mistakes made on the install script on the red cd...
another was that some hardware was not good with the "newer" setpatch
another issue was that the cd driver was imcomplete sometimes...
sometimes the problems are from issues like the "scsi.device" instead of "warpscsi.device"

There's more... so start as simply as possible and keep it simple by keeping track of the changes you created with the hardware and software choices you made.

My fav problem was the asimware cdfs issue (grin)

[SACC-guy]

Vacaville..to Washington DC..to Sacramento

How many amigas does it take to install an OS???

The boingbag1 and 2 do correct somethings but still need a booting 3.9 with a working cd reader.
I can't remember...is the cd connected to the 3000 scsi.device or the warpscsi.device?

[SACC-guy]

At this point I could probably install this sucker in 15 minutes if I had it in front of me.  And had a good DF0: floppy drive.  And some known-good floppy disks.  And a known-good 3.9 CD.  :lol:

Yes, i see that (really big grin)

[SACC-guy]

That worked.  It booted from the ERD.  What does this mean, and should I proceed with a 3.9 install from here?

@dschallock
Yes, that's idea. IN order to get a complete 3.9 install, it requires booting from the er disk.

Do you have BoingBag 1 and BoingBag 2?

[SACC-guy]

Mike,
I am checking on the warp dot device for install issues, I think if he keeps this card.
He will have to give up using the rom updates?

M

[SACC-guy]

Stay with the BB1 and BB2 for now.

There are other issues with 3 and 4

[SACC-guy]

Lies!  :p :lol:

Are you going to stay up all night and "fix" even more? (lol)

[SACC-guy]

Copy the entire contents of the CD to a hard drive partition, and assign it there with the same name as the CD? So it can do its verification against the files there instead of a disc?

Are you guys still at it? Get some rest...

BTW, I vote for a installer problem.

M

[SACC-guy]

Just for your info:
FAQ on Greg donner site:

http://www.gregdonner.org/os39faq/installtips.html

M

[SACC-guy]

You could extract BB1 and manually copy every single file over.  It's a lot of stuff, and tedious.

Here's another idea: reinstall 3.9.  Start fresh, again.  Maybe there's something just downright broken in your 3.9 install?

@olds-mike
I noticed two things I have no knowledge of...
He was using the PFS on sys:
and he was using two scsi controllers (scsi.device and warpscsi.device)

I was too too lazy to go to a bare 3000D...

another idea is to attach only to scsi.device on the motherboard and use the scsi rom updates? we didn't try that...
(I wanted to go home eat dinner and sleep.) grin

[SACC-guy]

@dschallock
Because my H &P BB1 cd has never failed for me with my setups, (mostly 4000) I'm going to borrow a 3000D and go thru the steps on the 3.1 to 3.9 and BB1 and 2 and report back.

[SACC-guy]

Thanks again for your help!  I'm sorry I kept you as late as I did.  Thanks again!

Da nada, amigo