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Re: AmigaForever questions
« on: October 20, 2005, 08:45:46 PM »
If you're prepared to spend a little time customising a Linux environment, I believe you could get close enough to the appearance of a real Amiga.

My Amiga Forever 2005 arrived yesterday (thanks AmigaKit!) and I've not had any luck with the self-booting environment on my Athlon64-based machine... It hangs on detecting SCSI devices, and if I boot Knoppix with the "noscsi" option, the emulated Amiga environment loads, Workbench appears, then the entire machine appears to freeze - no keyboard or mouse movement...

I'll try it on my other PC later. Anyway, the self-boot option isn't 100% critical for me - I usually run WinUAE anyway.

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Re: AmigaForever questions
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2005, 10:37:28 PM »
Update: tried this on my other PC, it also hangs once started (but does get past the SCSI checking part).

I've found the culprit though... I share the same keyboard, mouse and monitor via a Belkin USB KVM and it's this that is not being detected by Knoppix. Odd really, since it works fine under Ubuntu and Fedora Core...

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