HELP on installing OS 3.9 on Large Hard Drive!!!!

[amigagreek]

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.

HELP!!!

[keropi]

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)

[meega]

Beaten to it, but all the same...

I don't know whether it ought to be different on an A4000, but this is how I might try on an A1200.

Partition (if required) and format the small hard disk - you could do this with nothing else attached, maybe - and make it bootable and install Workbench 3.0/3.1 on it. Nice and clean and simple. It's only 2-3 megabytes for 3.0. You could do this off your Workbench floppy disks. Method can be the same as is used later on (*!). Update whatever 3.0/3.1 needs in order to cope with the big hard disk. (That might mean getting 3.1 ROM.)

Turn the machine off. Fit the big disk as well as the small one. Check any jumpers to see that master and slave are correct.

Turn the machine on. Partition and format the big hard disk. Make at least one part bootable.

(*!) Open the Workbench, choose Show All Files, Select All, and drag the whole lot into the bootable part of the big disk.

Turn the machine off. Remove the small disk. Check jumpers.

Turn the machine on. See if it worked.

If so, turn the machine off. Fit the CD, checking jumpers.

Turn the machine on. Now is the time to make 3.0/3.1 into 3.9 (provided that you have better than 3.0 ROMs). Install all your stuff into the big hard drive from the CD.

Send me the 2.1GB hard drive. I only have a 700 odd MB hard drive (Workbench 3.0 with a fair bit of 3.1 system software in there), so I could use it. (Edit: by all means wipe or format it first.)

[keropi]

u don't need the 2,1gb HD at all.... just use it to make an emergency disk and boot 3.9 with it.... u can do the partitioning from 3.9 running from the cd...

[meega]

keropi wrote:
u don't need the 2,1gb HD at all.... just use it to make an emergency disk and boot 3.9 with it.... u can do the partitioning from 3.9 running from the cd...

That sounds easier. And as you don't need the small disk, you could send it to me anyway. (2.5" please.)

[amigagreek]

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:

[meega]

Edit: sorry, umm, moto! Help.

[Thomas]

After creating the emergency disk, fire up your favourite text editor and load df0:devs/dosdrivers/emergency_cd. Find the line which begins with Device = and change it to read Device = "scsi.device".

Bye,
Thomas

[doctorq]

Thomas wrote:

After creating the emergency disk, fire up your favourite text editor and load df0:devs/dosdrivers/emergency_cd. Find the line which begins with Device = and change it to read Device = "scsi.device".

Bye,
Thomas

or just copy the device driver it's asking for to the devs drawer of the emergency boot disk.

[motorollin]

Ok, you know it works in 3.1. So copy the dosdriver from the DEVS drawer on your 3.1 installation to the DEVS drawer on your 3.9 installation. Then open the DOSDriver in a text editor. Find the Device line and copy the device it says form the DEVS drawer on your 3.1 installation to the 3.9 installation. Do the same thing for the DOSDriver, which needs to be copied from the L drawer of 3.1 to the L drawer of 3.9. Reboot in to 3.9 and your CD drive should work.

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moto