OS 3.9 installation issues

[matthey]

Floppies suck. I have had horrible reliability problems with them as well (humidity?). It would be better if the hard drive had 2 bootable partitions, one with AmigaOS 3.1 and the other with AmigaOS 3.9. The boot priority can be changed easily in HDToolbox to select which one boots (or temporarily changed in the boot menu). Copy the AmigaOS 3.1 partition to the freshly (quick) formatted AmigaOS 3.9 partition, change the boot priority to boot off the AmigaOS 3.9 partition and install AmigaOS 3.9 from the CD-ROM. It may be easier to buy a newer and larger SCSI HD and save the smaller and older HD as a backup. The PFSAIO file system is probably worthwhile to use if getting and formatting a newer HD but it has a few quirks also.

A potential option for SCSI HD replacement:

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?p=1042839#post1042839

[matthey]

I was pretty intimidated by PFS the first time I used it, as well, and found the lack of documentation daunting.  But it's a good FS especially for "more advanced" Amiga's (i.e., I'd use FFS if if I was just building something to play games).

Actually, the documentation for PFS is good but it is technical and the installation process could be easier. I have had few problems with PFS but I have heard that it doesn't like a few hardware setups. I don't know if this has been improved with PFSAIO.

[matthey]

Documentation for PFS.  

What? They speak Chinese in the Netherlands now? I thought it was English .

Edit:  Actually, no, this is my copy of "Understanding Women".  :laughing:

Isn't that a chapter from "The Art of Love and War" by Shi Sun Tzu Mi? It takes a lot of Chinese characters just to write, "I know nothing ... nothing at all".