Setting up an 80Gb hard drive on OS3.9

[rvo_nl]

Your sort of stuck in chicken and egg situation. What to do is construct a custom boot floppy, which includes idefix.

Yes. like the os3.9 bootdisk. Just put c:idefix in the startup-sequence, make sure it loads the OS3.9 ROM update from CD and reboots, and you're set. (under WB3.1 you'll always need to use diskchange command to mount partitions above 8GB, unless you use PFS3 iirc). Dont forget to change your filesystem to something that supports large devices, like SFS, PFS3 or a patched FFS! And dont make your boot partition larger than 4GB, to be safe.

[rvo_nl]

yes, although Im pretty sure its 4gb. I do recommend starting with a 100mb wb3.1 partition used just for solving problems. its always  a good idea to have a partition that doesnt require rom updates or idefix patches to start.

[rvo_nl]

hmm. you should use hdtoolbox from os3.9, you know. dont forget partition sizes and the rom update reboot. but glad to hear it seems to be working