System requirements for 3.9?

[runequester]

What sort of system is required to run 3.9 ?

What is recommended to make it not crawl

[Franko]

The a1200 in your signature will do nicely...

[Flashlab]

http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/amigaos39.html

[runequester]

ah nice I'll put it on the list of stuff to buy then.

[Darrin]

Just remember that it installs off a CD ROM drive so I hope you have one.

I did install OS3.9 (or was it OS3.5?) onto an A3000 over a serial cable using the CD ROM drive on a PC and the Siamese v2.5 software.  Mind you, it took forever...

[runequester]

Just remember that it installs off a CD ROM drive so I hope you have one.

I did install OS3.9 (or was it OS3.5?) onto an A3000 over a serial cable using the CD ROM drive on a PC and the Siamese v2.5 software.  Mind you, it took forever...

Im hoping over christmas to be able to get subway and a USB cd rom drive, to take care of that part.

[Franko]

Im hoping over christmas to be able to get subway and a USB cd rom drive, to take care of that part.

DONT buy a USB CD drive to use with the SUBWAY, I use SUBWAY myself and it's way to slow even on my 060/PPC to handle a CD Drive...

If you need a CD drive you'll need one of the 4WAY buffered interface boards, I use the 4XEide & FastATA MKIII boards, with these and a CD/DVD burner you'll have no problems reading/writing CD/DVDs...

[runequester]

how much trouble are they to install ?

[Franko]

Which one the Subway or the buffered interface...

[runequester]

the latter.

[Franko]

Easy just plugs into the internal HD connector on the MB. Although you'll have to run a cable to the CD/DVD drive outside the case. Or Make a special connector like I did. There are some pics in my profile page that show this...

[runequester]

Gotcha.

I'll look into the options. Im a bit hesitant to chop up the case too much

[Franko]

It's not too difficult to do, and it's well worth the effort...

[Darrin]

Still get the Subway though for other things.  I use a FAT formatted 8GB memory stick for transferring things back and forth quickly from my PC.  For example, I saved a lot of time downloading KG's WHDLoad games packages on my PC and then extracting them using Amiga Forever.  I then copied the extracted files to the memory stick, plugged it into my Miggy and copied the files onto the hard drive.  I also use a cheap USB Ethernet adapter to get online (does OK on the Deneb, not sure how the Subway will perform).

[Darrin]

Gotcha.

I'll look into the options. Im a bit hesitant to chop up the case too much

A "round" IDE cable should let you attach one end to a 4xIDE card and feed it out through the removeable plate on the back of the A1200.