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Description: This is my A1200 net booting. The root filesystem is mounted via NFS from the SUN server below. The kernel which supports booting from network was cross compiled on the SUN. "What's the use?" you may ask. Answer: To show it's possible. :-D Picture Stats: Views: 2213 Filesize: 92.66kB Height: 768 Width: 1024 Posted by: Colani1200 at October 23, 2007, 09:50:55 PM Image Linking Codes
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| LoadWB Posts:2901 | September 26, 2008, 04:33:48 AM So, the compile speed is pretty close to that of my Sun SparcStation IPX with a 40MHz SPARC (4m, I believe.) Just start it and come back in a few hours to see how it's going  Don't even try OpenSSL tests on it... heheheI'm hoping to do some Unix on my Blizzard 2060 system. I just need to find the time. |
| Colani1200 Posts:707 | June 27, 2008, 11:49:24 AM Quote
Quite like that, yes. You have to compile a special kernel for this (one that does a DHCP request and tries to mount the root filesystem from NFS. The PCMCIA/NIC support is already present in the generic kernel). The kernel is loaded with the "loadbsd" command from inside AmigaOS. I started it from hard disk, but it might fit on a HD floppy as well IIRC. |
| darksun9210 Posts:1319 | June 27, 2008, 11:09:30 AM hang on, am i being stupid here? but, how did you get the amiga to understand a pcmcia network card and IP stack? built into the kernal booted from floppy? :-? impressed anyway :lol: |
| adonay Posts:1144 
| October 26, 2007, 10:38:19 AM Nicely done wonder how it would cope on a apollo 060 with 80mhz overclocked ... although still suspect it would crawl.. anyways you have proven it is possible :-D |
| cv643d Posts:1197 | October 25, 2007, 05:32:05 PM Very nice, have been wanting to run NetBSD on Amiga for years, perhaps I break a leg in the future so I can spend more time at home and have time for such projects. |
| Colani1200 Posts:707 | October 25, 2007, 09:15:43 AM Quote
You mean, run an X server on the Amiga and have the SUN drop some applications (as client :rtfm:) on it? Sure. Quote
You're damn right. I think it took almost an hour on my 030/50 with 64 MB to compile Bash... :lol: Quote
Um... no, thanks. Linux is ok, but i prefer the BSD stuff. :-D Quote
Yeah, NetBSD/Amiga comes with a precompiled X11 environment which supports AGA. I'll probably take some more pictures, but be patient. :-) |
| DBAlex Posts:304 | October 24, 2007, 09:49:01 PM WOW :-D ive just made a login which is rare to comment, Ive allways want to see an amiga boot BSD or Linux... just a strange curiosity heh... Thats damn cool though! So, could you also run an xserver on that that is hosted on the sun? Would be slow of course... - But cool! Im also guessing its not the fastest machine at /make /make install :-D :lol: You should try debian on there too, they still support the 68k architecture which is nice... I've never had the b@lls myself to do it.. plus I don't have a cd-rom ;-) (Bad excuse...) Oh and post more pics if u have em... does the XServer support AGA then? Alex. |
| Colani1200 Posts:707 | October 24, 2007, 01:07:18 PM Actually you can do everything you'd expect from a UNIX workstation or server. I. e. use it as web, mail, ftp, whatever server... Apache, MySQL, X11, it's all there. You could possibly also run Gnome and Firefox on it. In slow motion of course. :lol: And due to NetBSDs architecture (pkgsrc), you have to compile everything from source. This takes ages on the poor old miggy. :-P Maybe I'll cross compile some packages on the SUN with distcc, but it is connected via WLAN and the connection is a bit flaky because the router is too far away. |
| motorollin Posts:8669 | October 24, 2007, 08:42:09 AM Quote The kernel which supports booting from network was cross compiled on the SUN How did you manage that without being incinerated? :-P Very cool though. What can you actually do with it once you're in BSD? -- moto |