How do I build/customise my OS3.9?

[ChaosLord]

My advice: just buy a 16GB card and then just install everything in 5 minutes.


You will save many hours of agonizing over what to install, what not to install, getting mad when you screw something up or forget a file.  You will forget files.  You will make mistakes.

Amigas came to Earth from Heaven with a 2TB drive size limit (2000GB).  So its really fantastically silly to limit yourself to a 4GB drive size.  1985 Amigas are not like 1985 M$ Windoze machines or Apple Mac machines with all sorts of made up limitations to rip you off.   Throw a big drive in and copy ALL the WHDLoad games that exist all at once.  Spend the time you save with your kids, or your wifes or your grandkids or your friends or have a nice relaxing nap.

[ChaosLord]

I didn't really want Classic WB, but could I hell get OS3.9 Read CF0:, I Added all the dosdrivers from the old 3.1 build into the 3.9 folders but even when I used shell to mount cf0: I got nothing, I couldn't even figure out how to install FAT95. PC's are so easy these days, everything you need is in a package, you click install and it's there, with an Amiga you have to have a degree to understand the instructions, you have to learn how to edit config files and learn simple commands. It's never easy.

You are telling me you can make a custom Windows 7 config that does everything you want and fits on a 4GB CF card?  For real?  You can do that?  Its that easy?


If you insist on abusing your Amiga and starving it of the memory it deserves then I don't know what you expect to happen...

With that in mind, I gave up and tried to install ClassicWB on 3.9, the install Icon that is supposed to appear would not, so I just knocked the whole thing on the head and reverted back to 3.1 with Classic WB.
 
Due to transfer times and installation times, I spent all day trying to do it and failed.
 
I'll probably try again some day and most likely fail again.

I am pretty sure someone warned you this would happen

I think I'd need to be spoon fed how to do it to actually understand.

Next time get a 64GB storage device and use the FREE  ready-made FREE distros that ppl spent thousands of hours making for you to use for FREE so that you would not have a single problem ever.

There must be at least 5 different distros you can download for FREE that have built-in unzip and unlha and that are widely reported to "just work".