desktop icons on 3.9

[Will-i-am]

I already got the answer to this question once and promptly forgot to write it down. I think I tossed it into another thread as an afterthought. Dang. Okay, I installed 3.9 on my A4000D just fine and am now installing all my graphics progs. I noticed that the icon for my Work: partition is different from my Workbench: partition...ie UGLY, like a floppy icon. I want to copy the Workbench: icon as Work: or otherwise get nice matching icons. I used to know how to do this at the command line and thanks to modern medicine don't have much short term memory...did you knnow that neurontin not only causes suicidal tendencies in the depressed, but also can cause severe memory problems? Nice for pain, bad for memory. What do I do to get a good icon for my Work: partition? Thanks!!

[Will-i-am]

Okay, this time I print the dang instructions! Thanks folks, for the good info. And yes, I am "Will"... that's why I said Will-I-Am. I found that William is a very popular name whereas Will is less common and Will-i-am even less so. Here's a slightly different os 3.9 query that I developed while wrestling with my tower: Howcum when I first install from the CD I can't change the preferences, in fact I can't even get preferences to open? I have to go into Opus and copy a whole lot of stuff from the CD over to the HD. I can't get Screenmode to open, Overscan...the whole lot of progs in the Prefs directory won't respond until I essentially copy all of Workbench from the CD to the HD manually. Seems like a cummy way to install an OS.

[Will-i-am]

No errors that I noticed...no prompts, no bad blocks, nuthin. In point of fact I was finally able to get "screenmode" to work only by copying it from a 3.1 WB! I tried copying some of the other Prefs progs from the CD to the HD and they bellied up as well until I brought them over from the 3.1 floppy. So I guess at this point I have sort of a mix of 3.1 and 3.9 things going. Last time I did this I was able to just pull things off the 3.9 CD and I thought this time it would work again, but when I systematically tried to open all of the various programs I ran into this problem. Curious. The ones that don't work give me the message "Program failed (error #80000004)..." This happens to Workbench,& Deficons...CacheCDFS gives me a window with nothing in it and no close gadget or minimize....I just pull it out of the way....and Asl doesn't do a darn thing. Actually not sure what it does anyway. 8-) So, should I try to re-install the OS and see what happens this time? Or what about the Boingball download? Does that do anything in the way of fixing problems like this? That error number has gotta mean something, right? Geez I am tired of not being able to do something as simple as install an os! I do fine with everything up to 3.1 and then it falls apart. Oh yeah, Dopus fails to run as well....sigh. Maybe I'll go play with my A2000. It's running OS 2.1 and seems happy as a clam. I'm sure it's a simple thing I've overlooked....

[Will-i-am]

I started with a fresh hard drive, did a full format, installed os 3.1 and idefix to get the cd drive working and then installed os 3.9 from the cd I had purchased from Softhut this summer. One possible problem occured to me today.... the tower uses a Cyberstorm 060/ppc. I installed the os 3.1 software from  my friend who sent me the tower and not the Phase 5 software because, in part, the install disk had a note scribbled on it indicating it was modified with the '060 library. I figured it was the OS the tower had arrived with so it would probably run the Cyberstorm. (Why the original HD is not being used is another story...) I suppose that the 3.1 software might have left something "different" behind that the OS 3.9 didn't remove...? or the Phase 5 stuff being not there might somehow interfere with Preferences? The trouble with that thinking is how would I know and why wouldn't the 3.9 stuff override the 3.1 legacy software? Maybe I should install the Phase 5 software and see what happens. The desktop model with 3.9 on it runs mostly fine and IT only has an '040 board. Hmmmm. Sounds like it has to do with the Cyberstorm, nes pa? Man, I hate to start all over again. Everytime I get this thing running right I find a problem or create a problem and then start all over again. I still can't make the damn thing boot with more than one hard drive attached! Yeah, I'm that incompetent. But I am a very good sculptor and I build very nice wood fired kilns, so I got that low tech stuff going for me.... 8-)