bOiNgHeAd wrote:
What's all about this UNIX crap?
Do you have much software/games for this
platform then? I think it's really useless!
AmigaOS rulez!
Hmm. Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones ;-) Think about what you are saying here. I think the main interest in AMIX is preserving it so it doesn't go the way of 286 XENIX for example -- something that exists only as a memory. In the Amiga world, AMIX is really quite unique and it would be a shame for it to be unusable forever.
And, yes, there is a large amount of high quality, free software available for UNIX. The problem with AMIX is getting it to compile properly with the old libraries and software.
@Matt_H
It has been a little while since I looked at the install script, but in the default installation via tape you get choices. The first file on the tape is a header listing all the packages and their order, since I commented all the package stuff out to get my method to work I didn't pay much attention to it but I imagine it just looks for the cpio EOF marker to distinguish them. If you look in the / directory you will see two files that "don't belong" in a standard UNIX FHS, that's what was in the "header". I went ahead and left them there.
Since the HD hack more or less just dumps the contents of the tape to disk, which is possible due to the fairly primitive concept of package management present in sysv4, whatever package databases are initialized...aren't. It should be possible to change the script to use the package management, but it would be marginal benefit, since AMIX packages do not exist in the wild and the only thing you'd get was the opportunity to install stuff you didn't want initially, later. I may still try it at some point just to see it myself. My picky side wanted package management, but the impatient side just wanted AMIX installed!
@Dal
Unless the installer changed radically between 2.03 and 2.1, all that would be needed would be to create a cpio archive of the stuff on the 2.1 tape, and the existing script could handle it. It would still be an HD dump though, so no package management. It would be interesting to get something that could be dd'd to tape to do the install the proper way though.
