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- ARM Linux Installation Instructions
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- Welcome to ARM Linux. Here is a quick guide to installing Linux.
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- Port Copyright (c) 1996 Russell King.
- See the file Copying for more information about the copyright.
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- *NOTE*
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- I take no responsibility whatsoever for any damage, loss of data,
- data being inaccurate, inconvience caused by use or misuse of these
- programs. See the GNU GPL paragraph 11 and 12 for exact details.
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- You should have:
- 1) This disk (ADFS 1.6M) containing:
- !Install The installation utility
- Install This file
- Copying The license
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- 2) At least 3 other floppy disks containing the base distribution.
-
- If you do not have any of these, I recommend that you obtain them from
- ftp.ecs.soton.ac.uk:/pub/armlinux before attempting installation.
-
- Minimum requirements:
- 1 adfs IDE hard disk.
- 4MB memory minimum, 8MB recommended.
- RiscOS 3.1
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- To begin installation, run the !Install application. It will *not*
- install anything, but will take you through the steps, telling you
- what to do.
-
- (some day I will re-write it so that it will do the installation etc,
- but this was written as a quick job. As is the !Config app).
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- NOTE: rebooting to RiscOS.
-
- There is a known problem here. It appears that RiscOS has some static data
- in memory somewhere that *must* be preserved over *all* resets, except of
- course power on. The data includes timing information for handling high
- bandwidth modes and the floppy disk. Since Linux takes over the whole
- machine, this data gets corrupted. Therefore I recommend that you
- reboot to the CLI, enter:
-
- *FX200 2
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- and hit the reset button again. This causes RiscOS to effectively perform
- a power on reset. Sorry, but there appears to be no other easy way round
- this. It is however, ok to reboot straight back into Linux, so long as you
- don't default to one of the high bandwidth modes.
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- Known modes include:
- 28 (640x480x256)
- 32 (800x600x256)
- Modes that appear ok:
- 12 (x16)
- 27 (640x480x16)
- 31 (800x600x16)
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- Last modified: 28-Jan-1996 15:05:04
- By: Russell King (rmk92@ecs.soton.ac.uk)
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