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- From: Frank.Neumann@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE (Frank Neumann)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga,comp.os.linux.m68k
- Subject: Re: PROBLEMS: IDE HD's with Linux
- Date: 6 Feb 96 22:20:27 GMT
- Organization: C. v. Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg - Fachbereich Informatik
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- Hi,
- eka@stack.urc.tue.nl (E. Durmin) writes:
-
-
- >My computer system:
- > - A1200
- > - 4 Mb fast, 2 Mb chip
- > - MTec1228 68030+68881
- > - 1080 Mb IDE HD (Western Digital Caviar WDC 21something)
- > - Kickstart 3.0
-
- >While installing I found a few problems:
- > - 1.2.13pl5 kernel My IDE HD does't work with this kernel.
-
- You are not the only with with problems with IDE on kernels above 1.2.13pl3.
- People are currently investigating on this.
-
- > How can I solve this problem? Should I change something in HDToolBox? Should
- >I use the 'real' kernel instead of the kernel which are compiled for the Amiga
- >only?
-
- I don't think HDToolbox settings are your problem. Also, Amiga-only kernels
- should work ok as well. Best thing is to just wait for a while and let
- people work on it.
-
- > - What is the difference between amiboot-2.2 and lilo-0.4a?
-
- amiboot is the command line program to start the kernel from a shell.
- lilo does about the same thing as lilo on PCs - it lets you boot into
- Linux much earlier with making it necessary to boot fully into AmigaOS.
-
- > - I just have 4 Mb fast and 2 Mb chip... this means that I can't
- > use X-Windows...
- > Why can't I use X when I have virtual memory? Is it because not evrything
- > can be swapped to VM or is it just because it is tooo sloow?
-
- Well, you could always try. :-) I have never tried running X with 4 MB
- (ok, except for these old Apollo Domain machines at our university, but
- that's another thing ;-). It might (and probably will) work, but I
- believe you wouldn't want to call that 'usable'.
-
- Frank
-