Advantages of 3.1 ROMs and OS 3.5/3.9

[tonyvdb]

What I can tell you is that its definatly worth while to upgrade to 3.1 roms.
First of all its not nearly as slow as 3.0 was and has a better interface. Coupled with OS3.9 you will love the "new" look that it gives you. OS3.5 is not worth it unless you can find it cheep. I'm using it and it works fine for me but if you dont have it already go for the 3.9. It will also suport your accelerator better then what you are using now and alow you to use larger hard drives (over 4 gig)

[tonyvdb]

Its been awhile but when I upgraded to 3.1 from 3.0 I noticed faster boot times and the Boot menu was better layed out with more options.
As far as looks the windows had nicer looking drag bars and the colour options were nicer. Plus if I remeber right they fixed som bugs that were in 3.0.
OS3.9 dose away with all the patchwork needed for using larger drives atached to the amigas drive inerface (not accelerator)

[tonyvdb]

At the minute I'm messing about with a 512Mb Kingston CF card to hold the OS

The only drawback with using a CF card is that they are not as reliable as a good hard drive you may want to have a backup of it.

what is the largest size of partition that can be used?

Its not recomended to go above 2 gig per partition in OS3.5 or 3.9.