OS 3,9 on an A3000

[Skyrunner]

Hi guys, I'm having OS v3,9 installation trouble.

My system is a latest rev A3000 with PPC/233/060/UWSCSI,
ROM 3.1, 96MB RAM(all on the CSPPC, none on the mobo),
XSurf2 and CV64/3D. I've a Quantum Fireball TM 3,2GB had
drive and a Yamaha CDR400AT on the A3000's native SCSI
controller.

I install OS v3,1 and ASIMCDFS v3,8 then make an OS v3,9
bootdisk using the installer script found on the CD, boot
off that floppy and install OS v3,9.
Although the installer reports that OS v3,9 has been
successfully installed on the hard drive, I notice that
there are many .info files missing from the Sys: partition.
In some cases there are also some other files missing from
the installed system (li.e files from the Systems drawer.
Anyhow I've tried the same using CacheCDFS off the OS v3,9
CD to no avail.
What I have noticed though is that I cannot copy any .info
files from any source to my Sys: partition.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated as I'd rather not
reformat the entire hard drive.

[Skyrunner]

I did exactly that yesterday to get the same results...

[Skyrunner]

Allright this is what I did last night before going out for a beer...

Installed 3.1 and AsimCDFS setting the CDROM drive as CD3:, not mountable upon startup. Ran the installer off the 3.9CD and installed CacheCDFS setting the CDROM drive as CD0:
When I rebooted the system off the hard drive, I could not see the CDROM while using the CacheCDFS CD0: DOSDriver so I mounted the CD3: AsimCDFS DOSDriver which worked flawlessly as expected. I ran the OS3.9 installer, selected the Install 3.9 on a clean hard drive option and the darn thing worked fine! Well almost as I got 4-color icons... perhaps because I had not isntalled CyberGFX prior to installing OS3.9 - then again, some of the icons were colored...
At least the biggest problem has been solved.

[Skyrunner]

Nope the Screenmode is 800x600, 16bit. I can see only a few color icons such as DefIcons and AHI, WarpOS and VincEd in the Prefs drawer and Benchtrash and IoTools in the Tools drawer.
I can only suppose that the OS3.9 installation script expected some version of a library that did not exist on the 3.1 installation partition (since I did not boot from the Emergency Disk).

[Skyrunner]

Yeah too bad we didn't. But we did quite a few laughs