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Maybe you must even increase the size of your system partition to be able to install OS 3.5. You will need at least 20 MB. During the start of AmigaOS the startup-sequence and the user-startup are executed. If you are using critical programs in these start files we recommend to deactivate them first. 68040 or 68060.library When you want to install OS3.5 on a new hard disk you have to install OS3.1 first. You will find OS3.1 on the CD-ROM as well. Please take note that you might need a special 68040 and/or 68060 library to run your system. Please use the original one that came with your turbo board. The best way is to generate the emergency disk first. This disk will contain the appropriate CPU libraries as well as the graphics board drivers. With this disk you can boot your system and start the installation.</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD VALIGN="TOP">Installation</TD> <TD VALIGN="TOP">Q: I get an error message "You must have at least 10 MByte of free space on your boot partition." although I have 15 MB free disk space the installation is canceled. A: This is an error in the installation script. 20 MB free disk space on your boot partition is required. Please set up the boot partition respectively or remove some files.</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD VALIGN="TOP">Patches Icons NewIcons MagicWB</TD> <TD VALIGN="TOP">SetPatch The program SetPatch which is started in the startup-sequence fixes many well-known problems of the OS. Starting from OS3.5 it also replaces the drivers for the control of the internal SCSI and IDE hardware of different models. These new drivers permit the operation of fixed disks with a capacity of more than 4 Gigabytes. There are problems with some Amiga 3000 models and 4x extension cards for IDE. In this case you should extend the call of the SetPatch to: C:SetPatch QUIET SKIPROMUPDATE "scsi.device" Please keep in mind that OS3.5 does not natively support those 4x extension cards for IDE. Please use the same software which you used so far. If you still have problems to start OS 3.5 please rename the file "DEVS:AmigaOS ROM update". Thus the replacement modules are omitted altogether. SetPatch with NewStyleDevice Patch The program SetPatch extends many well-known hardware drivers with new features. In addition, it uses a configuration file "DEVS:NSDPatch.cfg". We have heard about a conflict between the hardware driver cd.device (which is part of the OS) and a cd.device of an unknown manufacturer. If you are using such a cd.device and you are having trouble, deactivate the appropriate line in DEVS:NSDPatch.cfg. Do this by placing a # in front of the line in a text editor. LoadV43Module If you already extended your system by the instruction LoadV43Module or similar tools to operate fixed disks bigger than 4 Gigabyte you should remove this instruction. SetPatch takes over these functions. NSDPatch The execution of NSDPatch is not necessary any longer, since SetPatch takes over this function NewIcons OS 3.5 comes with a new icon.library. This library is responsible for the administration and representation of all the icons. Many users installed "NewIcons", a patch that improves the look of icons. The task is now done by the new icon.library. You can now remove the calls of the NewIcon patches from your startup-sequence or user-startup. The new program IconEdit can be used to transform NewIcons into genuine OS3.5 icons. That is not necessary to display NewIcons on Workbench, but it speeds it up. Fuel Gauge OS3.5 offers a fuel gauge for fixed disks on the left side of a window - like it was with OS1.3. There are also many other patches that are doing the same. We recommend to deactivate these patches. ARQ ARQ (a patch to improve system requesters) caused problems on some OS3.1 systems. With OS3.5 it seems affect even more systems. For that we do not recommend to use this patch. MagicWB If you want to continue using MagicWB icons, then you will still need a patch which reserves the color pens. Otherwise the icons will be represented with wrong colors. FastIPrefs If you are using the program FastIPrefs, then you should replace this by IPrefs. The new version of IPrefs that comes with OS3.5 supports new features that OS3.1 does not. It also supports some of the options of FastIPrefs and eliminates some known bugs. No Glow Icons after installation If Glow Icons will not be displayed after installation this is because of an error of your file system. There is a updated version of SmartFileSystem that fixes this. But with the current version of PFS3 our tool that replaces the icons (MergeIcons) will not find any files to replace. In this case you have to replace them manually or wait for the update. Borders around icons can not be switched off See "FastIPrefs"</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD VALIGN="TOP">RTG Picass 96 CyberGraphX</TD> <TD VALIGN="TOP">CyberGraphX and Picasso96 OS 3.5 supports the graphics drivers systems CyberGraphX and Picasso96. For the operation of Cybergraphics 3 it is however necessary that you install the update, which is provided on the OS3.5 CD-ROM. Owners of version 4.0 of CyberGraphX can download the free update V4.1 from Aminet (biz/patch/cgxv42_r1.lha) or from the homepage of Schatztruhe ("<A HREF="http://www.schatztruhe.de/updatese.html">Free Updates</A>").</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD VALIGN="TOP">Harddisk</TD> <TD>Harddisk partition disappeared<IMG SRC="new_14.gif" WIDTH="31" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" HSPACE="10"> In the case some harddisk partitions are disappeared or you can not use disk space over 4GB, your device has to be specified for NSD patch. Please open the file "DEVS:NSDPATCH.cfg" with an editor, e.g. EditPad - look for the corresponding device and remove the comment symbol # at the beginning of that line. For CYBPPC.Device you have to insert the following line: DEVICE cybppc.device DEVICETYPE NSDEVTYPE_TRACKDISK COMMANDS 2-7, 9-15, 20-28, 33-39, 41-44, 46-49, 51-72 TD64 Save you work and reboot your Amiga. After your Amiga started again please check if it worked by opening the Shell and enter the command: SetPatch PatchInfo Watch the list for your device and check if -Patch count- is bigger than 0. Now you should be able to completely use your harddisk.</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD VALIGN="TOP">Misc</TD> <TD VALIGN="TOP">Binary Datatype The installation procedure of OS 3.5 will deactivate all datatypes. After the installation you can make them active again. Unfortunately the Binary.datatype is not compatible with OS3.5. This datatype is a bit special because it does not need a description in DEVS:Datatypes. The simple existence of the datatype in SYS:Classes/Datatypes/ is sufficient to activate it. If you notice crashes while displaying unknown files with Multiview you should check that there is no file "Binary.datatype" in your SYS:Classes/Datatypes drawer. SKIPROMMODULES (error in the manual) The installation manual contains a wrong description how to switch off the new SCSI device. The right command line option is: SetPatch QUIET SKIPROMUPDATES scsi.device Renaming the file "DEVS:AmigaOS3.5 ROM Update" does the same. System crashes wen opening a drawer on Workbench This problem seems to happen with the origianl Picasso 2 software installed. Please install CyberGraphX or Picasso96 drivers that you will find on the OS 3.5 CD-ROM. Prefs programs can not be started This is caused by an old ClassAct version in your LIBS: drawer. Please have a look if there are Boopsi classes in the drawer LIBS:Classes and remove them. Please reboot your system and try again. There might also be a drawer called SYS:ClassAct that should be removed too. The file info window does not show "start from:" You are certainly using RAWBInfo. This tool replaces the info requester of the Workbench by its own one. Please remove this tool from your WBStartup drawer and reboot your system. AWeb toolbar is destroyed This effect seems to happen with AGA screens only. Unfortunately we do not have a solution for this problem. On OCS/ECS and graphics boards this does not happen.</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD VALIGN="TOP">Applications</TD> <TD VALIGN="TOP">Wordworth 7 Wordworth 7 does not start because of a misinterpretation of the icon information. Please activate the Wordworth icon and select "show information". Change setting of "start from:" from "ARexx" to "Workbench". Wordworth will now run again.</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD VALIGN="TOP">Internet</TD> <TD>AWeb toolbar is destroyed<IMG SRC="new_14.gif" WIDTH="31" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" HSPACE="10"> This effect seems to happen with AGA screens only. On OCS/ECS and graphics boards this does not happen. Solution: load the button graphics with a graphics program or Multiview and save them.</TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> </TD> <TD> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD>More Hints and Tricks on AmigaOS 3.5</TD> <TD>AmigaOS 3.5 Hints and Tricks This information was compiled by Alex and it is based on hints, tips and discussions on the mailinglist at Onelist amigaOS3_5@onelist.com (subscribe via amigaOS3_5-subscribe@onelist.com). 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