Advice on installing AmigaOS 3.1

[antonye]

Hi All,

I was wondering if I could seek some advice on installing AmigaOS 3.1. As it has been a while since I have to reinstall, I am a little rusty. I use to restore my miggy from disk images. I have all the other software (060 libraries, etc) I just some key advice on Installing the OS without any problems. I'll have to try and remember how to mount the CD drive later on. For now, the OS is main goal.

Any advice would be useful,

Cheers,

Antony Evans  :-D

[amigakit]

I take it that the Kickstart 3.1 ROM install went OK?

To install 3.1, insert the Install 3.1 disk and boot it.  Use the OS installer to copy each disk across.  If your hard drive is unformatted, prep it with the software/hdtoolbox.

[Thomas]

Make a backup of the Install3.1 disk, then replace the original 68040.library by the very small one which comes with the 060 libs. (In the original archive it is called 68040dummy.library and has to be renamed to 68040.library.)

Now boot from the Install3.1 disk. If the HDD is not yet installed, open the HDTools drawer and run HDToolbox to partition the drive. After the reboot format the new partitions.

Now open the Install drawer on the Install3.1 disk and double click the icon with your language. Follow the on-screen instructions. Do *not* choose "Novice" when asked for your skill !!!!!

After installation copy 68060.library to your HDD's libs directory.

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

@amigakit:

To install 3.1, insert the Install 3.1 disk and boot it.

This will crash. Remember that he mentioned a 060. The 68060 will crash when used with the original 68040.library.

Bye,
Thomas

[antonye]

The ROM installation went extremely well. The ROM's and OS disks arrived in perfect condition and in exceptional time.

Regarding the OS install, I thought this might be the case. The last OS I installed was WB.3.0 and that was on a miggy 1200HD years ago. As The original HDD is un-bootable, I theory, I should be able to mount the old HDD, copy the data off and re-format the 2nd drive as Aux storage...If I am correct?

[antonye]

That's useful as I was wondering how I was going to get around that little problem....I was just going to disable the Blizzard PPC from boot until the OS was installed and deal with that later. I was going to use the 060 libraries off the old HDD.  Another point..... If I cannot re-use the old 060 libraries, is there anywhere I can get them??

[Thomas]

If you have a working installation, you don't have to reinstall. Just create a bootable partition on the new drive and copy all files from the old boot partition to the new one. That's it.


Updated 060 libs can be downloaded from here: http://powerup.amigaworld.de/index.php?lang=en&page=13

Updated OS files are available here: http://os.amigaworld.de/index.php?lang=en&page=37

Bye,
Thomas

[whiteb]

Thomas wrote:
@amigakit:

To install 3.1, insert the Install 3.1 disk and boot it.

This will crash. Remember that he mentioned a 060. The 68060 will crash when used with the original 68040.library.

Bye,
Thomas

Ahhhhhhhhhh, which is why 3.1 install disk spits the dummy and locks up on my A4000 (cyberstorm 060).  I have to load workbench, then run the files on the install disk.

[antonye]

Cheers for the help. That's what I call useful  :-D