Well, ok. I'll bite.

I'm actually not a new member per se, since I've been lurking here unregistered since this site started but I didn't register until I bought OS4.1 for my Peg2 a couple of weeks ago.

I'm not using my Amigas for anything serious actually, but just surfing and playing netradio stations through TuneNet is fun enough. Yesterday I installed RunInUAE (works great by the way, so far only 20.000 leagues under the sea is the only game that doesn't run properly) and are now having a blast playing Lemmings 1 & 2, Cannon Fodder and Push-Over again. Funny enough, it's the three games I always install first on all my computers, even under emulation on some. They still kick as much ass-fun as back in Ye Olde Days!

...and will I buy the X1000 if/when it arrives? Damn straight. Even if its just for surfing and stuff... ;)

@Kicko

Don't know if this is the solution you need, but I open slayradio's URL through the "open playlist" option. Just find your net-radio's .m3u file (or similar) and paste it in.

Or you meant copy the URL of some random station you tuned into through that list that tunenet search-generates by its own?

@geennaam

Thank you! That worked like a charm with the +RB flag and the correct refreshrates. The flickering is gone and screenblanker works as intended now.

@Chris

My screen sometimes flicker to black for a second when opening a drawer. Very annoying. Oh, and when I open the screenblanker prefs, it blanks the screen forever, I have to do a soft-reset to get back to WB.

edit: ok, resizing windows also sometimes create the black screen thing. I've tried with and without composition and it happens under both on my Radeon 9250.

Ok, this is a little embarrassing but I finally figured out what the problem was. Seems like OS4 didn't like my only IDE cable running both a HDD and the CD in any configuration (master-slave or master-cable select) and just showed the slave device as "busy" so after putting each on their own IDE port, everything works.

Even better was that I got update 1 downloaded and installed flawlessly, so now I'm one VERY happy returned Amiga user.

Anyway, since I hadn't messed with filesystems in a while, this thread got to be a quick tutorial in how to format the damn thing correctly so thanks for that. :)

Thanks guys. :) I got it to atleast boot by itself now, but still no CD. Installed the hotfix too, but to no avail. Seems like I have to open up the box and see if its jumpered wrong or something like that.

Greetings, fellow amigans. I recently took the plunge and bought AmigaOS4.1 for my Peg2, and while I got the system up and running, I have a feeling it isn't properly set-up. I apologize in advance for the very long post but I couldn't seem to explain it in less words.

Let me start from the beginning. Following the manual I booted from the CD, entered my language etc all the way up to where it said I had to partition a drive and that the easiest way was to just use "Load OS4 template"... which failed miserably, stating that "the supplied file is not a profile" and when I looked in the "profiles" folder on the CD, it's completely empty. So I had to do it by hand. Going back to the manual I read that the first partition should be a FFS/0 without long filenames. I can't get the filesystem tab in MediaToolbox to show FFS/0. It shows DOS/03 or something similar when I try to have a plain FFS partition to hold the bootloader.( I fiddled around a LOT with this before I settled on SFS/00 on it because that was the only partition that the OS4 installer wanted to install the bootloader on.)

As it is now, I formatted it with SFS/00 instead and created the main OS4 partition just like that one, and my work partition, and finally created a SWAP as stated in the manual, and then proceeded to install OS4. So far so good.. until I rebooted. It failed to boot at all, and I had to boot from the CD again and then choose my OS4 install on the harddrive. That makes OS4 boot, but without any CD-rom support at all.

The next thing I tried was figuring out a way that I could boot without the OS4 CD. The closest thing I got was by typing "boot /pci/ide/disk@0,0:0 amigaboot.of" in the peg2's firmware start. That boots my OS4 installation but yet again without any CD-rom support at all. Media Toolbox happily states that it wants to change my harddrive to the ONLY drive in the system and doesn't recognize the CD-unit at all. I can't even open or close the CD-tray and even worse, I have to make a cold reboot or the firmware won't see the CD-unit again after a reset.

So, my questions is: How do I make a proper install that partitions the harddrive with the correct filesystems, preferably with that OS4 template that doesn't seem to exist on my CD?

If it still refuses to create it and I should continue with my current setup, how do I make it boot with CD support?

Other than these two problems, the system's been rock-stable, fast as lightening and has happily run all the old 68k things I've tried on it. It's ridiculously great in other words. I can't express in words how great it feels to be back with a true Amiga Workbench again after years of other OS's.

Any help with this is greatly appreciated. :)