Getting OS 3.9 without cd-drive

[dear1700]

Greetings,

I am wondering if it is worth the purchase of OS3.9 for my A1200. I have a 40mhz 030 and 16meg fast ram, so will I be able to reasonable use AVI/Quicktime videos and mp3 music??

How much data is loaded onto the cd of os 3.9?? I ask because I do not have a cd drive for my amiga, but I have been moving files from pc to amiga via a 512mb compact flash card. Can I copy all contents of cd to CF and proceed with the OS install this way??

Thanks in advance!

-Alan

[dear1700]

Couldn't I just copy all contents to said flash card, then rename is the same thing as the CD (i.e. AmigaOS3.9 ??) Since the amiga would look for the device name and not the volume, right??

Is that Delfina a zorro card?? So, would the upgrade just provide a "pretty" workbench that would eat up all my chip ram then, huh.  Would it really slow the system down that web browsing would be annoying at best??