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Offline alberonnTopic starter

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Which Linux to run on an Amiga?
« on: December 12, 2002, 01:56:34 AM »
I was wondering which Linux distribution to run on my Amiga 4000. My system currently is as follows:

Amiga 4000 Desktop Motherboard in a Power Tower case

68040-25mhz (full `040, not a crippled one.)

16MB Fast, 2MB Chip

AmigaOS 3.9

PicassoIV

40x ADAPTI CD ROM

External 56k Modem. (But I have a friend with DSL willing to grab and burn CD's)

Current HD is only over 4GB, I'm thinking of getting a bigger one. I have an older 2gb drive that I've been experementing with Debian on, but I have to manually swap drives to use it.

I have three cd's with Debian Linux v2.2r5 "Potato". Anytime I install it, it installs fine, but I have to switch out of the first terminal window since it doesn't seem to want to give me a command prompt after then installation process. The drivers for my GFX card always puts up some sort of debugging info when I switch to a different terminal screen. And on the CD I have, XWindows doesn't want to work at all. Any help with any of this would be helpful...

 

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Re: Which Linux to run on an Amiga?
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2002, 02:58:22 AM »
Yeah, I have the CD's for 2.2r5 M68K. I heard that while Red Hat is the most popular version of Linux, it's got a few bugs in it...