I've boarded my attic and put sockets and proper lighting up there.
One of the projects I'd like to get going again is my towered A1200. Full spec is Blizz 1230 Mk4, 3.1 ROMS (mapped into the Blizzard RAM), 32 MB Fast RAM, CD Rom plugged in using CD1200 PCMCIA interface, 2.5" drive plugged straight into on-board IDE.
I'd like to prep the 2.5" drive using WinUAE. On the PC side I have a device which allows me to plug any 3.5 or 2.5" IDE device in as an external USB drive. I presume it's possible to connect the 2.5" drive up this way and prepare it in WinUAE in the same way that people are doing alot with CF cards.
However, what I'd like to do different is to prep the Workbench 3.9 install on the PC using an emulated drive and then plug in the 2.5" drive and copy eveything over when ready. As long as I mount the drive in WinUAE and format it using the HD Toolbox utility as a bootable Amiga drive, will just copying everything, including system files, work or will permissions or attributes get messed up?
Finally, would I be best using an install like ClassicWB, or go for a vanilla 3.9 (with BB2) and install updates such as listed here
http://amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=62679&highlight=fblit (second half of Cammy's post).
