Installing 3.9 again. Need some advice

[Acill]

Well I have messed with my A3000 so much last year its no longer as stable as I would like to have it. I want to format the boot drive (SCSI 500MB) and put 3.9 back on again. The problem is this; I havent done it in so long I cant remember where all my reg keys are to back them all up. I could also use some advice on how to get a better CDFS then ASIM working. I use a IDE 32X CD-ROM on the Catweasel IDE port as well as a 60GB drive. Below is the way I did it in the past.

format DH0:
Install WB 3.1 from floppy to the internal SCSI boot drive

install the Catweasel/Buddah drivers for my IDE drives

Install AsimCDFS (last version released) so I can read the 3.9 CD.

Install 3.9 from CD and put back all the stuff like MUI and MMU package. and then all the Mediator apps and drivers.

Like I said I could use advice on how to get the 3.9 CDFS to work with my IDE drive and not use ASIM since its so dated now.

[logicalheart]

I usually start with AsimCDFS as well, but here are a couple of things that may help out.
1) Once you get the OS installed with all your drivers, make an LHA/LZX archive of it.  That way you can just unarchive it onto a clean partition to get a new start without a bunch of applications installed and without having to re-install the O.S., hardware drivers, etc.
2) Keep a spare partition on your hard drive to use for #1 above, and very handy for a number of re-install routines.
  - Lars

[lempkee]

make a recovery disk with your os3.9 cd..

that will make your system boot (with an empty hdd) from cdd..

thats one down...

goodluck


pps:asim suxx use os3.9 cdfilesystem.