8. The emergency disk

To avoid having to search floppy disks and drivers to re-install your system in case of an emergency you should let the installation program create a emergency disk for you. With this emergency disk you are able to boot into a plain AmigaOS 3.5 installation using the AmigaOS 3.5 CD-ROM. You just need a write-able DD disk to do this.

1. Put your AmigaOS 3.5 Update CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive if not already done.
2. Open the AmigaOS 3.5 symbol and the drawer "OS-Version3.5" with double clicks.
3. In the window that opens now you will see an installation icon.
4. Double click the icon "OS3.5-Installation".
5. The installer window opens and shows a selection of installation options. Select the option "Create emergency disk" and click on "Proceed".
6. Insert an empty floppy disk. The disk you inserted will now be formatted and all files that are needed to start the system and access the CD-ROM drive will now be copied. If you use a RTG system like CyberGraphX or Picasso 96 RTG system drivers will also be copied.

Thus you won't need to plug a 15 KHz monitor to you Amiga just to boot use the emergency system, because the emergency disk will initialize the RTG system during boot.

If you replace your graphics board or change the unit number of your CD-ROM drive, you have to create a new emergency disk or adapt your old one manually.