AMIX installation made easy...no tape drive!

[Dalamar]

Just out of curiousity will AMIX boot with 3.0 or 3.1 ROMs?

[Dalamar]

YEY!  I have Amix 2.03 running on my A3000 using your guide Failure.  Fantastic.  I created the "Tape" image on the hard drive from Amiga OS, and I'll write up what I did.  Thanks for you efforts on this.  Now to find more stuff to load on it.  Look forward to hearing from me Soon(tm).   :-D

[Dalamar]

any actual differences between a bogstandard 3000 and a 3000UX

nope

[Dalamar]

So for the Amiga OS install here is what I did:

Started with:
-two blank Harddisks in the system, each 2GB
-CDROM containing the extracted cpio files, floppy images, and dd utility for AmigaOS from Aminet
-AmigaOS 3.9 Emergency Boot Floppy for this system

I booted the system with the Emergency Floppy and put the CD of the AMIX source files in the drive.  I followed the instructions on Failure's site to create partitions.  I then copied the files to the first harddisk (SCSI 0) and replaced the AmigaOS3.9 CDROM when it was complete.  Ran Shell and changed to the folder where the files were copied to and ran:

dd -c145834496b -wCDH0 amix-2.03.cpio

I went somewhere else for 2 hours while the raw write hit the CDH0 drive (SCSI 1, the "Tape" for the install of AMIX in my system).  When this was complete I used transdisk to write the two floppy images from Failure's web site.

I followed the install instructions on the web site and it worked great!  I will say that my root file system is on a 1GB partition and I know Failure reported it didn't boot on his with a 1.3GB partition.  The 1GB boots.  The root file system installed on SCSI 0 disk which is the same disk that I copied the files to temporarily during the raw write phase.  I allowed AMIX to overwrite all the data on that disk.  

I'm happy.  I've been trying to get this loaded for months.  Many thanks again Failure! :-D

[Dalamar]

Thanks for your work on making this go.  X is my next project.  It's been quite some time since I made X work the "manual" way.  I must admit I'm confused that X can only display 1 bit color given the builtin Amiga graphics.  I would think it would be capable of more, but then again I'm not an expert in AMIX.  

Have you tried to upgrade the C compiler?  I'm trying to find a build of PERL to put on there and I think a newer compiler might be a good idea.

[Dalamar]

Very nice Matt_H,

I'm doing a reinstall now to test a theory (which I'll keep to myself until it works :-) ) but I just wanted to *ring* in and say that I tried the v2 method and made a BIG mess.  Be cautious.   :-o

[Dalamar]

Just to share, I installed on a 2GB root partition and it works.  I'll post my configs later.

[Dalamar]

The file you speak of is /etc/sysinit.  :-)  Not sure what's going on except that the setclk util isnt y2k compliant perhaps.

[Dalamar]

Found this in a USENET post:

Thank you for suggestions. After replacing the battery and the crystal
and checking that the generator is running when power is off, I found
that clock was running all the time! The problem was in AMIX 2.1, which
has the Y2K bug I feel so stupid! Is this problem documented
somewhere? Is it possible to circumvent the Y2K bug? The faulty program
is the one used for reading the NVRAM clock. I think it is named 'setclk'.

If you look at this post from Commodore and notice the required format for the date command I think it shows they were only expecting 2 digit years:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=setclk+Amiga&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=1992Oct3.031754.1826%40mirchi.uucp&rnum=5

I'd say my previous post holds true.  The sysadm utility doesn't accept the date if you try to put it in using that tool.  That's a glaring bug I'm afraid.  Oh well, just don't turn the system off.  :-)

[Dalamar]

Excellent.  I'll download that when you upload it.  

The time stays true until it's powered off so I would say that rebooting will definitely show that the clock keeps time.  ;-)

[Dalamar]

I have 16 installed.  :-)  Do you want to put up what you have and let me give it a try?