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Offline amigagreekTopic starter

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HELP on installing OS 3.9 on Large Hard Drive!!!!
« on: April 21, 2007, 07:44:43 PM »
I need to install OS 3.9 on my Amiga 4000 desktop using a large hard drive (40 gig IDE).

I have a CD ROM (IDE), a small Hard drive (2.1Gig), a large Hard Drive (IDE), OS 3.1 install disks, OS 3.9 CD.

Now, SOMEONE PLEASE GIVE ME STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON GETTING THE OS3.9 INSTALLED ON THE LARGE DRIVE so when my Amiga 4000 boots up from this drive.  I realize that there can only be 2 IDE items connected at once....so this seems tricky.

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Re: HELP on installing OS 3.9 on Large Hard Drive!!!!
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2007, 07:11:06 PM »
I am stuck.

Here is what I did on my Amiga 4000.
I installed OS 3.1 on a small hard drive partition.
I then installed ASIM CDFS v3 so that the OS will recognize the CDROM.
I then installed OS 3.9 on another partition on the same small drive.
I then made that partition bootable and not OS 3.1.  I restarted and now the OS 3.9 boots up at startup BUT it does not see my CDROM drive.  If I go back and install the CD DRIVER via the OS 3.9 disk still nothing happens.....

What is wrong?
Also if I make an Emergency disk it says that the ASIM IDE driver is not found or something....
HELP!
keropi wrote:
easy.

remove the 2.1gb HD
make sure that the 40gb and the cd work fine together
boot from the Emergency Disk and have the 3.9 CD on the dc-drive
go to HDToolbox to partition the 40gb hd, but make the 1st boot partition SMALLER than 2GB (make it 1.9GB for example...) you can make the rest partition whatever size you like...
now install the OS from the cd on the 1st partition and you are set!


EDIT: to make an emergency cd, boot with the 2.1gb hd that has OS and insert there the 3.9 cd, open the installer and choose: Create Emergency Disk (if it asks about cdrom driver, tell it to copy it also)[/quote] :cry:  :cry:  :cry: