Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:31:38 +0200
From: Emiliano
To: debian-68k@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Amiga and Sarge: any hope to booting off CDROMs
Resent-Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 02:29:50 -0500 (CDT)
Resent-From: debian-68k@lists.debian.org
Alle 03:13, mercoledì 12 ottobre 2005, Gayle Lee Fairless ha scritto:
>> I ordered sarge for 68k from Abexia and wondered how to boot my Amiga
>> 2000HD off them and possibly install it on a spare SCSI drive. I'm having
>> trouble booting off my boot hard drive and hoped to boot the Amiga with
>> 3.1 floppies and then get the sarge CDROM to boot. I get the impression
>> that this is a bit more involved than just installing woody on a Gateway
>> 500. (I have woody CDROM's for that arch so obviously I can't use them.)
>>
>> Is this a total pipedream? Or can I actually do something?
AFAIK the Amiga cannot directly boot off the CD-Rom (it was just a matter of
time then, maybe OS 3.2 would have had that possibility...).
You'll have to make a minimal workbench disk and put the cd-rom fs and device
driver on it. Then you can launch the install process via cd.
If you need gfx-board boot/install, you'd better make a small Amiga partition
on the SCSI and install a workbench on it with cd-rom drivers and gfx-board
libraries.
Regards,
Emiliano
Since my boot Hard drive is perhap defunct, where can I find a floppy to boot the Amiga and run an installation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)?
I have OS 3.1 floppies on which I can boot.
:-?
