[Howto] Installing a current release of Debian on Amiga

[nicholas]

You're welcome. I hope it will be of any use.



I'm afraid not. There doesn't seem to be a driver for PCI bridges on the Amiga. However, since Linux supports PCI in general, adapting the Linux kernel to support such PCI bridges would be possible. Someone "just" has to write the code for it.



Why shouldn't it? Amiga hardware is inredibly durable. And if it's broken, the fixes are usually trivial (replace faulty custom chips or resolder power connectors etc).

Adrian

This would be a good starting place for someone with the skills and inclination.

http://wiki.netbsd.org/users/rkujawa/amigapci/

[nicholas]

Thanks for your responses. Obviously, I would only be interested if full gui was supported.. how would Xfce run on my spec amiga? Also since my target platform is a1200 i would need working pcmcia net drivers too damn.

I glanced through that link of pcmcia cards supported. I have a linksys card so i may have a shot. Dont know the model as i'm not at the studio..

You can give it a try but something like WindowMaker / GNUStep or Openbox would probably be much lighter on the limited resources.

http://wiki.debian.org/Xfce
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGNUstep
http://wiki.debian.org/Openbox

[nicholas]

This is actually neat, I didn't know that. Thanks a lot for the heads up. I am pretty sure that driver code could be ported to Linux.

Adrian

Hopefully someone can get it ported across, it would be really cool to see Debian running on a Mediator + Radeon setup.