Any way to install OS3.9 without CDROM?

[Darrin]

I have OS3.9 on CD but I cannot get a cdrom drive working on my A1200.

Story in brief: I have an IDE cable which has a small connector for the internal 2.5" HDD and a connector for a normal IDE drive (3.5" hdd or cdrom drive). 3.5" hdd's and cdrom drives used to work fine set as slave but now for some unknown reason my A1200 refuses to work if i plug a cdrom or hdd.

Anyway, if i cant get this problem fixed (i would love to fix it) I still want to install OS3.9.

Is this possible and if so, how?

I did it once on my A3000 using "Siamese" to create a serial link between my Amiga and my PC.  The Amiga then mounted the PC drives as if they were Amiga drives and I inserted the OS3.9 CD in the PC's CD ROM drive and installed it from there.  The downside was that it took forever.  

As mentioned above, I would go the WinUAE route if possible and then transfer your drive over.  Also, look at Bloodwych's ClassicWB installations.  There is a OS3.9 one which has all of the instructions to get it going on WinUAE and then you can copy it to a hard drive for your Miggy (It's what I use on my A4000).

[Darrin]

CDROM is set as slave, but i also tried Master. The HD has no jumpers for Slave/Master.

Do you have any other Hard Drives you can test with?  All of my 2.5" drives have pins to set Master/Slave.