Help installing OS3.9 part II !

[Flashlab]

Install 3.1 on your HD from WinUAE (I used WB adf files). Copy a CD filesystem to the HD you downloaded on your PC. Make sure it's unpacked when you copy it to HD or have a unlha tool installed on your HD.

Put the HD in your 3000. Should work as you have installed the 3.1 Roms. Boot and install the CD filesystem. If all goes right you have a system that can read your CD-ROM drive then.

Use the OS3.9 installer to make an Emergency Disk. If the installer crashes or doesn't work make sure you have the latest installer in the C drawer on your HD. You can get it from Aminet but copying the one from the WB Install 3.1 disk worked for me.

Boot from the Emergency Disk and install OS3.9. I formatted my HD partitions after I booted from the Emergency disk to ensure a fresh install.

[Flashlab]

That's why I said install WB3.1 first in WinUAE on you SCSI HD. That way you'll have a system that can boot on your 3000 with which you can make an Emergency disk using the OS3.9 CD.

So you don't have to make a C drawer yourself. The 3.1 install will do that for you. Just boot WinUAE using the WB3.1 Install adf.

Emergency disks are made by the installer in such a way that they that they match your system. Most of the time this is just a copy of your CD filesystem with matching CD0 mountfile but I have some P96 settings too.

Anyway how would you get your Amiga to boot from a floppy you don't have? I mean you have to get the floppy to boot from it. And there's no adf Emergency disk file on the OS3.9 cd as far as I know... Just try to do it like I told you. Worked for me and really isn't too hard.

[Flashlab]

That's what I'm trying to tell you; Emergency disks are made specifically for the system you make them on.

Anyway you could try to alter the Emergency disk made on the 4000T to work with your setup. Edit the CD0 mountfile and look for the entries there. Make sure the device name and unit number match your setup. I don't know what the device name of the SCSI on the 3000 motherboard is called but probably scsi.device.

And no the CD isn't worthless; you can install OS3.9 with it. But is does take some effort.

[Flashlab]

Glad you found a solution!

Don't want to complicate any of your endeavours but you could also use the Picasso96 software which also has a driver for the Cybervision 64/3D. You don't have to buy the CyberGraphics V4 cd for that.

[Flashlab]

I was fearing this exact problem would occur. With OS3.9 you need CGX V4 to up to date or you will lose all CGX screenmodes. It a stupid bug. Look above for the download location.

When you recieve Amiga software on a disk or CD never assume it's the latest version! To keep producing newer versions of software releases on a hard medium costs money the Amiga community usually doesn't have. Always look around for a more uptodate version of your software.

BBs (or Boing Bags written  fully) are updates to OS3.9. You can get them here: http://os.amigaworld.de/index.php?lang=en&page=12