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Tips needed for installing OS3.9/OS4.0 on 060/PPC
« on: November 25, 2009, 12:18:20 AM »
Hello

I've just received two PPC accelerators (Blizzard for my A1200 desktop and CyberstormPPC for my A4000 desktop) and want to get some operating systems installed. Both cards have 060 processors and, as the 'best' processor I've ever had is my current WarpEngine 040/40, I'm thinking I may be a little out of my depth.

So, my questions are:

1. Both systems have 16GB CF cards installed. In what way should they be partitioned? I currently have a 1GB 'Workbench' partition, 1GB 'Apps' partition and the remainder as a 'Games' partition. I would like to keep it reasonably similar if possible from the 3.9 point of view but maybe I need to rethink this a little. I would like the default OS to be 3.9.
2. What tool should I use to partition? When doing a new install I usually use HDToolbox on the 3.1 install disk to create 'Workbench' and 'Apps' then create the 'Games' partition once 3.9 is up and running. I usually install 3.9 over 3.1 as I never had any luck with the Emergency Boot Disk.
2. Do I install 3.9 or 4.0 first?
3. With the 060, can I install 3.1 like I usually do or not? I seem to remember reading that the 68060.library was needed or nothing would work. Not planning on installing 3.1 (just 3.9/4.0) but was wondering all the same.

Any tips greatly appreciated as I'm definitely beyond my 'comfort' zone here :( My apologies if my questions are noobish or technically stupid but hopefully the replies will clear it all up for me :)

Thanks
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Re: Tips needed for installing OS3.9/OS4.0 on 060/PPC
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2009, 03:29:07 AM »
I'm happy with CSPPC users too ;) Not fussy!
A4000D CyberstormPPC 66/363 128MB Mediator 4000Di Radeon 9250 Deneb IndivisionAGA 16GB CF HDD
A4000D CyberstormPPC 50/233 128MB CybervisionPPC 16GB CF HDD
A1200 BPPC 50/240 128MB IndivisionAGA
A600 ACA030/25 A604 IndivisionECS 4GB CF HDD
A600
CD32/SX32Pro 030/50/128MB IndivisionAGA 16GB CF HDD
A500
A500+
 

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Re: Tips needed for installing OS3.9/OS4.0 on 060/PPC
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2009, 07:27:38 AM »
@Bamiga - thanks! That will help me a lot. Will give it all a go over the next few days as, right this minute, I'm an IDEFix short on my 1200 and a motherboard short on my 4000..both of which are in the mail.

@smf - and thanks to you. I guess you're right in that if I have one Apps: partition with two directories (i.e. '68k' and 'PPC' for example) in the root of Apps: I can install everything cleanly to their respective folders. I'm assuming this won't cause issues? Hadn't actually thought of it that way...was being a bit narrow-minded by assuming I may need 2 distinct 'Apps' partitions.

Thanks to you both though!!
A4000D CyberstormPPC 66/363 128MB Mediator 4000Di Radeon 9250 Deneb IndivisionAGA 16GB CF HDD
A4000D CyberstormPPC 50/233 128MB CybervisionPPC 16GB CF HDD
A1200 BPPC 50/240 128MB IndivisionAGA
A600 ACA030/25 A604 IndivisionECS 4GB CF HDD
A600
CD32/SX32Pro 030/50/128MB IndivisionAGA 16GB CF HDD
A500
A500+