It Lives!!!!

[andy82i]

Hi All!

After using OS3.9 on UAE for way too long with my old A1200 sat in the corner looking at me hopefully I decided to give it a quick power up the other day. It booted 1st time but wasnt too happy about using any screenmodes above 8 colours. I kept trying & eventually it gave me a full 256 colour Workbench  :-D
The clock bat was dead so I pulled one out of a spare windows box (see, they CAN be useful!)
Anyway, I just went mad & bought a 32mb simm for my Magnum 030 & a set of OS 3.1 roms off ebay. Now I just need to find the best way to get OS3.9 installed, hopefully on the space 20GB laptop hard drive Ive got.

Any Suggestions?

[andy82i]

Hi!
Thanks for the quick reply.
No CD drive or network. Cant even get files over on floppy as none of my Windows machines read DD floppys.
Would installing from UAE work with a USB IDE controller? Ive had trouble with one of these in UAE before but it really is looking like my best option so far as I already have one here somewhere

[andy82i]

Sorry, I ahould have said I have no CD drive on the A1200.

As for network cards I have an old 3com pcmcia card. Are 3com cards supported with any network card drivers from Aminet?

[andy82i]

I used to use cross dos a few years ago but none of my windows xp machines that im using now will read or even format a 720k floppy.
Will UAE not allow me to format the drive?

[andy82i]

Thanks for the link amije. I will give the drivers a try after I get OS3.9 running.

[andy82i]

I will try to format & install from UAE tomorow in preperation for the arival of my new roms.
Thanks for the help  :-)

[andy82i]

Cheers, Im gonna need it!

[andy82i]

Ok so Ive got my spare 20GB laptop hard drive in a USB contoller & Ive managed to get UAE to partition & format it (its doing it right now)ready for me to install OS3.9. All I need now is for my 3.1 roms to get here & hopefully Ill be all set!
Things never go as planned though... Ive had to spend half my time sorting out one of my XP machines. Its decided to have hard drive trouble.

Thanks to everyone for your help  :-)

[andy82i]

Thanks for the tip amije.
Ive got this far so there is no way Ill give up now. Thats one of the things I used to love about using my A1200 - figuring out why things dont work the way I want them to & making them work as well as I could.
I just cant wait for royal mail to get a move on so I can get everything together.

[andy82i]

My OS3.1 roms came today. Found them on the floor behind the door when I got home from work. I ran upstairs & pulled my A1200 to bits & stuck them in place along with the OS3.9 hard drive I prepared in UAE. After a couple of changes to the prefs & DOSDrivers It booted & gave me a perfect OS3.9!!  :-D  :-D  :-D It even feels quicker than OS3.0 did so Im really happy!!

A BIG thank you to everyone who helped me out with this!