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- From: Frank.Neumann@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE (Frank Neumann)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: Need new "first check" procedure for linux?
- Date: 26 Mar 96 16:13:23 GMT
- Organization: C. v. Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg - Fachbereich Informatik
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- Hi,
- john@meenie.Princeton.EDU (John Saponara) writes:
-
- >In the file InstGuide_v2.0a.txt, under the heading
- >"5. A first check" (that tells how to do a quick
- >check to see whether linux might work on one's system),
- >the author says to get files:
-
- > amiboot-<x.y>.gz
- > vmlinux-<x.y>.gz
- > new-filesys.gz
-
- >However, I cannot find the file new-filesys.gz in
- >tsx.mit.edu:/pub/linux/680x0
-
- >Is there a new location for this file? Is it still
- >possible to perform a "first check"?
-
- I'm sorry for this. The InstGuide is not very up to date anymore. I hope
- I'll be able to correct a few items in it in the next days. For now,
- take the newer filesystem that Michael Schmitz produced:
-
- ftp.uni-erlangen.de:/pub/Linux/LOCAL/680x0/v1.2/filesys-pl4-newer.ext2.gz
- or
- [...]/filesys-pl4-newer.minix.gz
-
- and don't forget the corresponding filesys-pl4-newer.README which explains
- a lot. This is not yet at tsx, but should get mirrored there soon now.
-
- As for the rest, DON'T use 1.2.13pl8 because it will crash on Amigas
- immediately (it tries to probe for Atari Bionet boards, which is
- nonsense). Stick with pl7 for the time being.
-
- Frank
-