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- From: mharrell@sojourn1.sojourn.com (Matt Harrell)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: Unix on a A1200
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 20:21:07 GMT
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- Paul Copsey (copseypl@aston.ac.uk) wrote:
- : Derek M Avery (D.M.Avery-CSSE94@cs.bham.ac.uk) wrote:
-
- : : My set up is A1200 blizzard Mk3 50mhz 030, 4meg fast ram and 210meg
- : : internal ide hard disk. I want to run Unix (linux) and am also going to
- : : upgrade my sytem as follows, scsi2 interface, blittersoft tower and a
- : : graphics board. Can I run linux off this??
-
- : : Friends have said that I cannot as there is no support for A1200 scsi
- : : drives.
-
- : It depends, if you got the blittersoft tower and bought a ZIII scsi interface
- : then I guess you`ll be alright. You may need some more memory though.
-
- NetBSD does support the SCSI in the CSA 12 Gauge, but no others, as
- far as I could find, which is the main reason that I purchesed the CSA
- instead of the A1200 accelerators.
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- Matt Harrell Amiga 1200 running AmigaOS3.0
- Lansing, MI U.S.A. CSA 12 Gauge 030/882RC@50MHz/SCSI
- mharrell@sojourn.com 2MB chip/18MB fast RAM
- 240MB IDE hard disk
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