Installing Workbench 3.9 on A1200

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IIRC, creating an emergency floppy doesn't work unless you have a High Density Floppy Drive (Great going OS3.9 team). But if your Harddrive is only 2GB you can use HDToolbox from 3.0 or 3.1 to partition it.

Then I suggest you install WB3.x either on the partition you're gonna install 3.9 on (and install OS3.9 over it) or make another bootable partition just for running the installation program from which you can later remove. (or keep as a WB3.x partition).

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Well might be nonsense to you but I'm almost certain that when I tried to create a floppydisk back in my A1200 days the disk got "full" during the creation.

I have made many installations where I have created a second partition with OS3.1 and installed from that (note, installed to another partition). That doesn't leave any old crap laying around.

Why, oh why didn't they make OS3.5 and 3.9 on floppies? If it was compressed and all junk like backdrop pictures and Amplifier was left out I'm sure it could have fitted on 7-8 DD floppies or something (if not less).

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Thomas wrote:
What a crap ! I didn't even think of floppies for several years now. Floppies are old and outdated media. You need only one single floppy disk, because the Amiga cannot boot from CD, but everything else can be stored on CD or even DVD.

Well, what about those of us who doesn't want to have a external CD-ROM lying besides our A1200's, or those of us who doesn't own an external PCMCIA SCSI CD-ROM, or those of us who doesn't want a CDROM in our A4000D case because it doesn't really fit and therefor somewhat "bends" the case, do you really think it would be that much more trouble installing from a couple floppies?

I wouldn't have complained as much if the installation procedure wasn't so very crappy, but let's face it. Installing OS3.9 on a machine that doesn't already have anything on the harddrive (I.E an old workbench or anything) is a real pain in the ass.

If you already have an emergency floppy that is working for your system and a CD-ROM connected, well sure, then it's not a big problem. But I have never had that ready when I've been about to install 3.9.