Getting OS 3.9 onto my 1200 without a CD-ROM

[kvasir]

Glad everyone else replied before I did. I installed AOS 3.9 by using SMBFS to mount a windows CD-ROM as a shared device. Completely screws up the file attributes. 3.9 in particular seems to hate that....

[kvasir]

Yeah, I kinda realized that after all the executables 3.9 upgraded didn't run until a "protect c:whatever +e" command.
Finally did a "list sys:#? all lformat "protect *"%p%n*" +e" >ram:s" and "execute ram:s". Made a pot of coffee, came back, and it worked! Still had to protect -e a bunch of stuff, just because I was kinda anal-retentive about it. Otherwise, an "executable" jpeg doesn't bother multiview too much. hehe

[kvasir]

I think you can get away with installing it on an emulator, you just have to map the pc's CD-ROM to a uaescsi.device and pick it up Amiga-side with an Amiga driver. Otherwise, mounting the "D:" (/dev/cdrom0 or E: or whatever) drive will result in the emulator passing the read through and converting the filesystem, minus attributes. Might have the same prob just copying the CD with another OS, too. Making an ISO image from it and mounting it amigaside with an ISO mounter (I think there are some on Aminet, though trying it never occured to me when I did my install for some reason) might work better. I use Nero to make ISO images, though I've never tested how happy the Amiga is with them. There's some freeware ISO imagers for winblows, too. Not sure which are safe and which are malware-infested, though. Ubuntu I think comes with an imager, and they have a live-boot CD, if you're not already using some flavor of Linux.

[kvasir]

Another thing I was thinking about, I noticed UAE when using the host filesystem as its own writes .UAERC files, containing the attribute information. If I can dig up my OS3.9 CD, I could probably do a recursive directory, and Lharc all the .uaerc files preserving the directory structure. All you would need to do is is unarchive this over a directory that has the OS3.9 CD copied, and UAE will set the file attributes accordingly when loading the "CD". I could even dump it on Aminet, though I'm worried about © problems. Don't think it would be an issue because the physical data isn't archived, just the attribute information.