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- Unofficial Red Hat Linux/m68k 5.1 (Manhattan)
- =============================================
-
- The contents of this CD-ROM are Copyright (C) 1998 Red Hat Software, Inc.
- and others. Please see the individual copyright notices in each source
- package for distribution terms. The distribution terms of the tools
- copyrighted by Red Hat Software are as noted in the file COPYING.
-
- Red Hat, RPM, and glint are trademarks of Red Hat Software, Inc.
-
- ============================================================================
- SUPPORTED HARDWARE
-
- The current version of the installer works on Amiga hardware ONLY!
- Atari, Mac and other Linux/m68k users can use the pre-compiled RPMS as
- almost all of the RPMS are machine independant, however it is
- necessary to install the RPMS manually using the rpm program.
-
- The port of the unofficial Red Hat 5.1/m68k installation was done on
- an Amiga 3000 using the internal SCSI controller and an A2065 Ethernet
- card. All four installation methods (CDROM, local disk, NFS and FTP)
- have been tested and found to work on this machine. The previous
- version of the installer that was released with 5.0, as far as we
- know, worked on most other Amiga models with the appropriate hardware;
- ie. a 68020+68851/68030+6888[12]/68040/68060 CPU+FPU+MMU - note that
- a 68EC020, 68EC030 and/or the lack of an FPU means that you cannot run
- Linux on your machine! Either the A1200/A4000 IDE controller or one of
- the following SCSI controllers are required to install Linux:
-
- A2091
- A3000
- A4000T
- A4091
- GVP HC8-II (and derivatives as found on many of their accelerator cards)
- Cyberstorm I
- Cyberstorm II
- Blizzard 1230IV/1260
- Blizzard 2040/2060
- MacroSystems WarpEngine
-
- FTP and NFS installation is expected to work with the following Ethernet
- adapters:
-
- A2065
- Ariadne
- Hydra
- A1200 PCMCIA NE2000 compatibles (APNE)
-
- Please note that this is the hardware (IDE, SCSI and Ethernet) that is
- EXPECTED to work, it has not all been tested recently due to not
- having access to the actual hardware. Please report problems to
- m68k-list@redhat.com!
-
- ============================================================================
- DIRECTORY ORGANIZATION
-
- This directory is organized as follows:
-
- /mnt/redhat
- |----> RedHat
- |----> RPMS -- binary packages
- |----> base -- small filesystem setup archives
- |----> instimage -- image used for graphical installs
- |----> post-install -- boot kernel to boot the _installed_ system
- |----> images -- boot and ramdisk images and amiboot
- |----> utils -- boot and installation utilities
- |----> html -- Ron Flory's installation guide
- |----> misc -- source files, install trees
- |----> COPYING -- copyright information
- |----> FAQ -- the Linux/m68k FAQ (FAQ version 2.0.36)
- |----> README -- this file
-
- If you are mirroring to a partition or an NFS volume, you'll need to
- get everything under RedHat, as well as the disk images from images
- that you need for your system.
-
- The flat-handler found in utils/ is distributed by permission of the
- author, Olaf Barthel.
-
- ============================================================================
- IMPORTANT NOTICE:
-
- For the installation you need the kernel image in the `images'
- directory. After the installation has finished you must use the kernel
- image found in the `post-install' directory which is called
- `vmlinux-amiga' to boot the system.
-
- The installation kernel image is not meant to be used for booting a
- `normal' system as it does contain ny drivers (these are loaded from
- the installation ramdisk). Therefore it is very important to use the
- `vmlinux-amiga' image for booting the system after the installation!
-
- ============================================================================
- INSTALLING
-
- You may want to read Ron Flory's installation guide before you start
- out with the actual installation. Point your favorite web-browser to
- the file "html/rh-inst.html" on the CDROM, ie. under AmigaDOS if your
- CD is mounted as CD0: the file will be CD0:html/rh-inst.html.
-
- If you are installing this release via ftp or off a hard drive, you
- need both a boot disk and a supplemental disk. If you are installing
- via NFS or CDROM you only need a boot disk. The images for these disks
- are in the images directory. Either the flat-handler program in the
- utils directory or 'dd' under Linux on an Amiga can be used to
- transfer the supplementary image to a physical floppy disk. Use
- amiboot found in the utils directory to boot the kernel and the
- initial ramdisk. Run the program using parameters similar to this:
-
- amiboot-5.6 -k vmlinux -r initrd.img root=/dev/ram video=<screen-mode>
-
- where video-mode can be one of the following:
-
- pal
- ntsc
- multiscan (this requires ECS/AGS and a VGA compatible monitor)
-
- Installing using a non-builtin graphics for the install display is not
- tested, however you can try it on your OWN responsibility and it is
- not guaranteed that it will work:
-
- For using a Cirrus Logic based graphics card you can try the following
- as the screen-mode:
-
- clgen:mode:low
-
- For CyberVision 64 and 3D cards you need to put your workbench into
- the the wanted resolution and specify the following as the video
- parameter:
-
- cyberfb:<mode> (CyberVision 64)
- virgefb:<mode> (CyberVision 3D)
-
- Where mode can be one of the following (for the installer 640x480 is
- recommended):
-
- 640x480-8
- 800x600-8
- 1024x768-8
- 1152x886-8
- 1280x1024-8
- 1600x1200-8
-
- After the installation has been completed, the system can be booted
- using the kernel found in `post-install' directory using a amiboot
- parameters like this:
-
- amiboot-5.6 -k vmlinux root=/dev/<root-device> video=<screen-mode>
-
- Where root device is the root partition you selected during the
- installation, for example:
-
- sda1 for the first partition on the first SCSI disk
- sdb3 for the third partition on the second SCSI disk
- hda2 for the second partition on the first IDE disk
-
- etc, etc, further details can be found in the FAQ or the install guide.
- The screen-mode parameter is similar to what is described above for
- the installation kernel.
-
- ============================================================================
- SUPPORT
-
- This is an unsupported package - it is recommended that you address
- all questions to the Red Hat m68k mailing list at
- m68k-list@redhat.com. The list is intended for people to help each
- other with problems regarding the installation process and usage of
- this Linux distribution.
-
- An archive of the mailing list can be found at:
-
- http://archive.redhat.com/m68k-list/
-
- To subscribe, send mail to m68k-list-request@redhat.com with
-
- subscribe
-
- in the subject line. You can leave the body empty.
-
- ============================================================================
-
- Good luck with the installation.
-