Any way to install OS3.9 without CDROM?

[dougal]

I have OS3.9 on CD but I cannot get a cdrom drive working on my A1200.

Story in brief: I have an IDE cable which has a small connector for the internal 2.5" HDD and a connector for a normal IDE drive (3.5" hdd or cdrom drive). 3.5" hdd's and cdrom drives used to work fine set as slave but now for some unknown reason my A1200 refuses to work if i plug a cdrom or hdd.

Anyway, if i cant get this problem fixed (i would love to fix it) I still want to install OS3.9.

Is this possible and if so, how?

[dougal]

Are you running IDEFIX from Aminet when trying to mount the CDROM ?

Is the CDROM set as slave and HDD as master?  Try the opposite if it doesn't work. You might get lucky.

CDROM is set as slave, but i also tried Master. The HD has no jumpers for Slave/Master.

[dougal]

Problem solved guys...  I opened up the miggy and turned the IDE cable the other way and everything is fine now.

Thanks as always for your help