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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Alternative Operating Systems => Topic started by: jjans on May 10, 2004, 05:48:23 PM
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I was wondering if anyone here has ever successfully installed either Debian m68K, or NETBSD onto an A500 with accelerator 68030 and FPU. Mine specifically is a GVP A530 with 8MB Ram and 2 MB chip.
Debian installation (Amiboot) freezes when running the installer script, and hangs in a white screen after detecting all hardware during the -debug as per instructions at Debian manual (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/m68k/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-install-drive)
As for BSD, I partitioned a 1 GB hard disk as per BSD manual (http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/mirrors/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6/amiga/INSTALL.html#Preparing your hard disk with HDToolBox) . I cannot get my multiboot (pressing left and right mouse buttons during boot) to detect the newly partitioned linux drive. I successfully transfered the miniroot.fs as per the manual using xstreamtodev from AmigaDos. I did have to add the --device=gvpscsi.device arg to xstreamtodev to get it to work.
From what I can tell, I meet the minimum hardware requirements in regards to CPU and FPU. (I recently installed a real MC68030 and 68882.
I am thinking that the problem may be with my GVP SCSI Controller. Any ideas?
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Dont know about nNetBSD, but as far as linux/m68k goes... http://www.no.linux-m68k.org/faq/amigahw.html
I would contact one of the developers, Geert Uytterhoeven is quite responsive :-)
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From the NetBSD/Amiga page:
There has been a report that the GVP '030/50MHz accelerator only works when all memory banks are switched to "Extended" (J12?).
I hope this helps.
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Thanks, I'll give it a go...