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- From: t9551343@minyos.its.rmit.EDU.AU (Gregory David Thomas)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: Linux1.2.13pl7 on A1200 IDE?
- Date: 16 Mar 1996 03:40:26 GMT
- Organization: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
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- Tom Eugelink (tom@grafix.xs4all.nl) wrote:
- : Hello Gregory,
- : In a message dated 07 Mar 96 you wrote to All :
- :
- : GDT> I have tried to put linux onto my HD using mkfs.ext2 and it dies most
- : GDT> of the way through and starts throwing up errors. I haven't used
- : GDT> linux before, this is my first attempt.
- :
- : I've been there too. All though on a A2000 with Derringer 030 and GVP Series II
- : SCSI.
- :
- : I discovered that the 0.9.13 release did work, but this release did not have
- : C++ support which I needed. All of the 1.2.13plX (up to pl7) releases had the
- : SCSI error I got as soon as I tried to install a filesystem. It seems you're
- : system has the same problem with IDE.
- :
- : Eventually I switched to NetBSD 1.1 which works without trouble.
- : On my system (25Mhz) it is a bit sluggish, but I think on your system it might
- : work just fine.
- :
- : So, maybe try to install linux 0.9.13 and see if troubles go away or (if you
- : have a little more HD space left to spent) use NetBSD 1.1 and see what
- : happens...
- :
- :
- : GDT> Can it work on an A1200 (50mhz 030 MMU 882 8MB fast)? Or does it not
- : GDT> support the controller on the A1200?
- :
- : I should work. What kind of accelerator board do you have?
-
- Microbotics M1230XA 50
-
- Thanks for the advice. I am still trying to get Linux to work, but
- considering my options.
-
- Greg
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