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Installation Tips

  1. After installation, I have SetPatch v44.13 in my C: directory. Is this the latest version of SetPatch?

  2. After installation, I have FastFileSystem v45.1 in my L: directory. Is this the latest version of FastFileSystem?

  3. Font loading in my Font Prefs editor seems to be as slow as ever. Was the font cache properly installed and activated during installation?

  4. Have the printer drivers been updated since the OS 3.5 Boing Bag 1 release?

1.
Q: After installation, I have SetPatch v44.13 in my C: directory. Is this the latest version of SetPatch?
A: No. The latest version of SetPatch on the 3.9 CD (v44.16) is not copied to your hard drive during installation, and needs to be copied manually. There are five copies of SetPatch on the CD, so you'll want to copy the last entry listed in bold:

AmigaOS3.9:OS-Version3.9/First-Install/c/SetPatch ... 44.2 (04.10.99)
AmigaOS3.9:Emergency-Boot/C/SetPatch ... 44.13 (05.03.00)
AmigaOS3.9:OS-Version3.9/Workbench3.5/C/SetPatch ... 44.13 (05.03.00)
AmigaOS3.9:OS-Version3.9/Workbench3.9/C/SetPatch ... 44.13 (05.03.00)
AmigaOS3.9:OS-Version3.9/Emergency-Disk/C/SetPatch ... 44.16 (15.09.00)

As Stephen Rupprecht pointed out, you should always use the latest version of SetPatch available. [Albrecht Kinzkofer]
2.
Q: After installation, I have FastFileSystem v45.1 in my L: directory. Is this the latest version of FastFileSystem?
A: No. The latest version of FastFileSystem on the 3.9 CD (v45.9) is not copied to your hard drive's L: directory during installation, and needs to be copied manually. There are two copies of FastFileSystem on the CD, so you'll want to copy the last entry listed in bold:

AmigaOS3.9:Emergency-Boot/L/FastFileSystem ... 45.1 (09.10.99)
AmigaOS3.9:OS-Version3.9/L/FastFileSystem ... 45.9 (09.03.00)

Please note that you also need to update all other fixed or removable FFS-installed drives with this latest version. Here's how to do it:

  1. Make sure that the tooltype "ASKDEVICE=TRUE" is entered in the latest version of HDToolBox (44.23).
  2. Run HDToolBox, and select the FFS-installed device that you want to update, and click on "OK".
  3. Select the entry that you want to update from the "Hard Drives in System" window, and click on "Partition Drive".
  4. Click the "Add/Update" button in the bottom right corner.
  5. Select the old FileSystem entry (should be version 45.1), and click on the "Update File System" button at the bottom right corner.
  6. Select the new FastFileSystem file from your L: directory, click "Load" on the file requester, and then the "OK" button at the botton left corner.
  7. Click "Save" in the bottom left corner.
  8. Click the "Exit" button in the bottom middle of the window.
  9. Your FastFileSystem is now updated.
3.
Q: Font loading in my Font Prefs editor seems to be as slow as ever. Was the font cache properly installed and activated during installation?
A: No. Type the following from a Shell window to activate the Fonts cache:
  1. makedir FONTS:_Cache
  2. setenv ENVARC:diskfont "cache=yes"

Reboot, and you're all done. Thomas Richter adds: "The first font requester or the next FixFonts will create the cache. This first call will be as slow as it used to be since the cache does then not yet exist, but all following calls will make use of the cache."

Also ensure that you're not patching diskfont.library from MCP or any other software. [David Rey]
4.
Q: Have the printer drivers been updated since the OS 3.5 Boing Bag 1 release?
A: Not yet; there are two sets of printer drivers on the 3.9 CD:

The drivers in: AmigaOS3.9:Emergency-Boot/Devs/Printers/ are the original drivers from the OS 3.5 CD, and should work fine.

The drivers in: AmigaOS3.9:OS-Version3.9/Workbench3.9/Storage/Printers/ are from Boing Bag 1, and are known to be buggy.