So I've read the guide, using HDInstTools I added the "pfs3" version (from l: ) to the filesystem (i.e. rdb) as dos type "PFS\3" (note the adding dialog box originally had "DOS\1" as the dos type which I changed as per guide and version 18 revision 5 which I left unchanged).
I edited my partition to custom type, changed the dos type to "PFS\3", max transfer to "0xFFFE00", buffers to 150 and rebooted. Each time I go back into HDInstTools I see Custom Type but "RESV" shown as the dos type and buffers is reset. Moving into the "DOS Format" dialog when I format it (any way) all I get is "Format failed: object not found".
This leads me to believe the pfs3 file I chose to use in the rdb is corrupt or invalid somehow - and I've installed it fresh at least 3 times. Note that when I used the pfs3 installer it fell over with a missing pfs3ds - a notable bug as
someone else documented here , now although I didn't use pfs3ds I copied the pfs3 file to pfs3ds in order for the installer to succeed which leads me to believe something is wrong with the 68000 builds.
Has anyone actually succeeded in getting this waste of nearly 5 hours of my birthday to actually install correctly on a vanilla A600 without either using the full 5.1 version (not on Aminet it seems) and upgrading via the 5.1 to 5.3 route? I'm thoroughly cheesed off at what should have been a simple job.
