So much memory... what to do?

[adrian82]

That's almost 450mb of Fast memory.  Now the question is.. what can one do with so much memory on an Amiga?

Very easy: Help us at the Debian project to ressurrect the m68k port. We need people who provide build daemons which compile packages (see: http://unstable.buildd.net/index-m68k.html).

We need everyone with a fast Amiga who can help. The more buildds, the better. Please consider helping us, you can get into touch with us here: debian-68k@lists.debian.org.

Cheers,

Adrian

[adrian82]

I've always wondered how fast Debian would run on my Amiga

It's quite usabale, actually. At least on my A1200 with ACA-1230/56 and on an A4000 with 68060/50.

but wouldn't providing build daemons using one of UAE's many ports be faster than real hardware?

One of the buildds is actually ARANym with an emulated 68040@170MHz and >700MB RAM (see the link I posted). However, some people provide real hardware.

Not to mention on Linux I could probably just leave it going all the time and provide multiple emulations running to compile it all.

Well, all of the Amiga buildds are running Debian Linux with Kernel 3.2.0.

Or I always thought the Buildds were running cross-platform compilations.

That doesn't work in all cases. Sometimes the compilation requires to run some tests of the binaries after compilation which won't work when cross-compiling.

Adrian

[adrian82]

Is there a dummies "click here to download" and "do this to start installer" guide?   I'm very familiar with Linux but it's the install (from AmigaOS) I'm unsure about.  The files listed in the FAQ no longer seem available from the ports tree.

The current recommended and easiest way is to use the filesystem tarball created by Thorsten Glaser. You hook up your Amiga harddive to a PC running Linux, create the additional Linux partitions and extract the filesystem tarball to the newly created Linux partition which will be your root partition.

Then you copy amiboot-5.6 (the beta version of 6.0 crashed for me) plus the kernel onto your AmigaOS partition and run amiboot like this:

amiboot -d -k //kernels/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amiga -r //cdrom/initrd.gz root=/dev/ram fb=false

Adrian