Clean install on My A1200 & A600

[fatboy]

Hi!,
    I have 2 rather nice machines to mess around with!
A 2MB A600 with 4 GB HD and 32MB A1200 with Blizzard IV '030' with FPU and 30GB HD.

I also have CF adapter (512MB)

I have a genuine copy of OS3.9 on CD (but no Amiga CD-Rom drive) and various copies of WB for the A600???

I currently run an install of ClassicWB on a 4GB HD in the A1200, however I am considering installing the special OS3.9 version of it or Amigasys4 AGA...but it all seems a bit complicated?

The A600 will run some WHD games but also AMOS/BLITZ and a few other productivity warez, just for fun!

The A1200 will run some sort of OS3.9 set-up and tons of games demos etc.

I need an 'idiots' guide to prepping and installing a nice WB environment on both machines...any advise?

Cheers
Fatboy

[fatboy]

TheGoose wrote:
Hi fatboy,

I'm not going to try to do a guide in full first off here, but this would all start by re-setting the HDs with new bootable partitions perhaps...?

Or just use the two for different purposes:

A600 for WHDload (ECS games only you know) and other things

A1200 - perform a full re-do on this machine, make a clean AOS3.9 install.

Nice machines...

The strange thing is a couple of years ago I had another A1200 (3.1 Roms and Appolo '030') and 60GB HD with OS3.9...and I did it mostly through WINUAE!!! I remember prepping the HD and installing SFS to break the 4GB barrier on the A1200 and it all seemed quite easy....2 years later my brain must have turned to 'mush' because there now seems to be a ton of options?......just can't get my head around it all :-?

I have seen loads of guides that seem pretty clear but alas I am still struggling :-(

[fatboy]

...... Classic WB has everything I need.  And its FAST.

I am actually running ClassicWB ADVSP on my A1200 on a 4 GB HD...I just assumed that the OS3.9 version of it would be better???

I guess I could just prep the 30GB HD and install ClassicWB on there (what about the 4 GB limit?....does ClassicWB deal with that?)

[fatboy]

NovaCoder wrote:
ok a little idiots guide for installing 3.9 on your CF via WINUAE (I'm sure there are better ones).......

 :-)

Great that sounds more like what I'm after!
Just ordered 8GB CF-IDE card and will go down the AmigaSYS route.

I'll let you know how I get on?

Now what about my A600?.....thinking of sitting under my TV and us it as an MP3 player...or is that too ambitious.

[fatboy]

save2600 wrote:
Under the TV, an A600 would be better suited as a game machine FatBoy!

68000 isn't going to cut it for mp3's, PLUS... the fidelity for that kind of thing out of Paula blows chunks. May as well listen to the radio or CD player.

Thought as much?

Just like the 'diddyness' of the A600....OK dedicated games machine it is :-)