First time install of TekMagic 060 w/9gb Seagate HD

[Argus]

I find it helpful to install a 3.1 and then 3.9 system on a smaller scsi harddisk first, say a 500MB one you probably have lying around.  Next, add the larger 9GB scsi disk to the chain, properly jumper and terminate it.  Boot off of your small scsi disk and then you can format the larger disk directly under 3.9, making a bootable sys: partition in the first 4GB with a boot priority slightly less than the initial small drive partition.  Now, reboot, format the new partitions on the large drive and copy over your smaller drive's sys: partition contents to the new sys: partition on the large drive.  Reboot and hold down both mouse buttons, select and boot from the new large drive's sys: partition.  Once you've verified the machine has booted off your new drive, shut the machine off and remove the small scsi drive (store it for future use).

[Argus]

I find keeping a spare scsi and/or ide disk with everything on it is the easiest way to set up a new 3.9 or even 3.1 Amiga, sort of a large 'emergency disk'.  The nice thing if you have multiple machines is that you don't have to reinstall everything.  Over the years I've come up with a pretty stable configuration in my Sys: partition, so I find this works the best.  Different hd controllers and 68060 cards may require you to install a few files from floppy but otherwise it's a sound approach imho. You can even do the same thing on the A600/A1200 with a pcmcia ata disk.  Just create a bootable workbench floppy with the necessary drivers to access the card and AT filesystem, then transfer everything over to the internal ide hardisk.  Good luck. :-)