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Getting OS 3.9 onto my 1200 without a CD-ROM
« on: May 21, 2010, 04:57:35 AM »
First and foremost, YES, I am aware that since I am using a CF card as my IDE Hard Drive, that I can mount it in WinUAE, install OS 3.9 from there, put it back in my 1200, and away we go.

The reason I do not want to do it this way is because I have noticed that in WB 3.1, games I have installed and work fine on the Emu side, do not run without an error or a crash on the real Amiga. Worms D.C. is one example. WHD games will not play at all on my real 1200.

Yet, if I delete Worms D.C. and re-install it on the real Amiga, it will then play.

So I'm figuring that when certain things install, they detect what hardware you have and install the files required. Though I could be wrong, then again I can think of any other reason why it would matter if a program was installed on a Hard Drive in an emu or on real hardware.

So what do I do? I understand OS 3.9 needs to have the CD rom installed in order to install the Boing Bags and what have you, and if I remember correctly I could not just copy the contents of the CD to a partition and install from there, so what now?

Thankx in advance for any help.
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Re: Getting OS 3.9 onto my 1200 without a CD-ROM
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2010, 05:23:50 AM »
Aghh so the assign command will work for this. O.K. good to know. Shouldn't be a problem then. And I assume I just use the WB 3.1 boot floppy then install after I'm booted up since the 3.9 boot disc will look for a CD-ROM?
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Re: Getting OS 3.9 onto my 1200 without a CD-ROM
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2010, 07:22:07 AM »
Speaking of those, do I just buy any one of these

http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_kw=CF&_kw=PCMCIA&_kw=Adapter

and download this

http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/cfd
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Re: Getting OS 3.9 onto my 1200 without a CD-ROM
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2010, 07:29:44 PM »
So any one of those cards will do, or does brand matter?

P.S. OS 3.9 installed (again) and running better than when I installed in it UAE.

WHDload is still flaky though, but I'll get onto that in my other thread.
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Re: Getting OS 3.9 onto my 1200 without a CD-ROM
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2010, 04:17:54 AM »
I've experienced that before, which is also part of the reason why I didn't want to install while within an Emu. Hard Files or not, I don't trust it.
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Re: Getting OS 3.9 onto my 1200 without a CD-ROM
« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2010, 05:06:01 AM »
You can get away with it yet, but thus far in my experience the Amiga seems a lot happier if you just install it on the actual hardware.
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Re: Getting OS 3.9 onto my 1200 without a CD-ROM
« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2010, 07:48:07 AM »
That would be done too I imagine. Didn't realize there was an ISO image mounter for Amiga. Awesome!

So there you have it, three methods.:

1. Install via PCMCIA Card with CF by renaming the CF card to "AmigaOS3.9" and copy the contents of the CD to it.

http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/cfd

2. Boot UAE with CF mounted as Amiga formatted HD, copy contents to of OS 3.9 CD to a directory on that hard drive (preferably a partition), mount that on real Amiga, assign "AmigaOS.39" to that directory and install.

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=51999&highlight=Setup+card+Winuae

3. Mount the CD Image (with Virtual CD) on the Amiga and install.

http://aminet.net/package/disk/cdrom/virtualcd
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Re: Getting OS 3.9 onto my 1200 without a CD-ROM
« Reply #7 on: May 22, 2010, 10:40:24 PM »
I forgot to mention, when copying the OS 3.9 files to a hard drive directory to install from. You'll need to add a line at the very top of the Emergency Disks Startup-Sequence.

I.E.

Assign AmigaOS3.9: Storage:AmigaOS3.9

If you do not use the Emergency disk to install, problems WILL arise, such as Libraries being detected event though they are in place, etc.
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