A3000 clean install of OS3.9 - help!

[InTheSand]

Hi,

I bought OS3.9 from AmigaKit over a year ago and have only just got round to installing it (mainly because didn't want to change my existing Amiga setup at the time).

I've just installed a "new" (!) 1Gb hard drive into my A3000, so thought I'd have a go at installing OS3.9 from scratch as previous WB installations have been a doddle. Oh dear!

My A3000's specs are: A3000D, Cyberstorm Mk2 '060 with 128Mb RAM, Cybervision 64, Catweasel MK2. Internal SCSI hard drive, external SCSI CD-ROM.

I've basically installed a standard 3.1 Workbench so that I can have something to boot into. I've done this from the original floppies, with the exception of altering a copy of the installation disk to include replacement 68040.library and 68060.library files in LIBS:. After installation, I made sure that these replacements were also in the hard drive's LIBS: directory.

I then modified the "CD0" icon's tooltypes to point to the right SCSI ID for my CD drive and then mounted it. So far, so good... I can mount the OS3.9 installation disk and see the files on it.

I then double-clicked on the "AmigaOS3.9" CD icon, followed by the "OS-VERSION3.9" drawer, and finally the "OS3.9-INSTALLATION" icon. The CD was read for a while, but then the installation stopped with a Guru for "c/Installer" with error #8000000B.

OK... Not what I wanted but I figured it requires a newer version of "Installer", so I copied the version from the CD's "EMERGENCY-BOOT/C" directory to my "C:" assign. This is version 44.10.

I then rebooted and tried the above again. The same error occurred for "c/Installer".


Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?

Thanks in advance,

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

Hi,

Thanks everyone for the info and suggestions... It appears my CD-ROM drive has had it... Either that, or I have some sort of weird SCSI termination problem...

Basically, every file I try and run from the CD results in a "Program failed" error for that particular file.

The drive is an old Apple 600 quad speed, so I guess it needs replacing.

I'll bear the points of CDFileSystem vs CacheCDFS in mind when I next get a chance to install - thanks for the info.

Need sleep now! The Amiga can wait until tomorrow!

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

Hi,

Seems my A3000 doesn't like SCSI CD-ROM drives, or at least the two I have!

Gave up in the end, took the hard drive out, connected it to a PC and copied the OS3.9 files across to it from WinUAE...

Oh well!!!

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

Hi,

Thanks for the info - had done that though, after reading similar comments elsewhere. Just had to make an assign for AmigaOS3.9: to the files on the hard drive, added that to the emergency floppy's Startup-Sequence and all was fine.

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

@Patrik - looks like I'll have to check my SCSI chip's revision. I've had the A3000's case off too many times today though, so it can wait for now!

Not sure if it's termination or not... I've tried a variety of combinations. My A3000 doesn't have any internal termination resistors, but fails to read properly from the CD drive regardless of whether it's plugged into the internal ribbon cable or external port.

 - Ali