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hardware revision 1.10
      1   1.7  chopps NetBSD/amiga 1.2 runs on any Amiga that has a 68020 or better CPU with
      2   1.7  chopps some form of FPU and MMU, and on DraCos which still have a CIA.
      3   1.7  chopps 
      4   1.7  chopps The minimal configuration requires 4M of RAM and about 65M of disk
      5   1.7  chopps space.  To install the entire system requires much more disk space,
      6   1.7  chopps and to run X or compile the system, more RAM is recommended.  (4M of
      7   1.7  chopps RAM will actually allow you to compile, however it won't be speedy. X
      8   1.7  chopps really isn't usable on a 4M system.)
      9   1.1  chopps 
     10   1.1  chopps Here is a table of recommended HD partition sizes for a full install:
     11   1.1  chopps 	partition:	advise,	with X,	needed,	with X
     12   1.9      is 	root (/)	20M	20M	15M	15M
     13  1.10      is 	user (/usr)	75M	110M	55M 	90M
     14   1.1  chopps 	swap		----- 2M for every M ram -----
     15   1.1  chopps 	local (/local)	up to you
     16   1.4     jtc 
     17   1.1  chopps 
     18   1.1  chopps As you may note the recommended size of /usr is 20M greater than
     19   1.7  chopps needed. This is to leave room for a kernel source and compile tree as
     20   1.7  chopps you will probably want to compile your own kernel. (GENERIC is large
     21   1.7  chopps and bulky to accommodate all people).
     22   1.1  chopps 
     23   1.4     jtc If you only have 4M of fast memory, you should make your swap partition
     24   1.4     jtc larger, as your system will be doing much more swapping.
     25   1.4     jtc 
     26   1.1  chopps Supported devices include:
     27   1.2  chopps 	A4000/A1200 IDE controller.
     28   1.1  chopps 	SCSI host adapters:
     29   1.7  chopps 		33c93 based boards: A2091, A3000 builtin and GVP series II.
     30   1.7  chopps 		53c80 based boards: 12 Gauge, IVS, Wordsync/Bytesync and 
     31   1.7  chopps 		    Emplant.*)
     32   1.7  chopps 		53c710 based boards: A4091, Magnum, Warp Engine, Zeus 
     33   1.7  chopps 		    and DraCo builtin.
     34  1.10      is 		FAS216 based SCSI boards: Fastlane Z3, Blizzard I and II**)
     35   1.1  chopps 	Video controllers:
     36   1.7  chopps 		ECS, AGA and A2024 built in on various Amigas.
     37   1.7  chopps 		Retina Z2, Retina Z3 and Altais.
     38   1.3  chopps 		Picasso II.
     39   1.3  chopps 		GVP Spectrum.
     40   1.5    neil 		Piccolo.
     41   1.8      is 		Piccolo SD64.
     42   1.3  chopps 		A2410.
     43   1.4     jtc 		Cybervision 64.
     44   1.8      is 		Domino.
     45   1.8      is 		Merlin (Zorro 2 only).
     46   1.8      is 		Omnibus.
     47   1.1  chopps 	Ethernet controllers:
     48   1.1  chopps 		A2065 Ethernet
     49   1.3  chopps 		Hydra Ethernet
     50   1.3  chopps 		ASDG Ethernet
     51   1.3  chopps 		A4066 Ethernet
     52   1.3  chopps 		Ariadne Ethernet
     53   1.4     jtc 		Quicknet Ethernet
     54   1.7  chopps 	ARCnet controllers:
     55   1.7  chopps 		A2060 ARCnet
     56   1.1  chopps 	Tape drives:
     57   1.1  chopps 		Most SCSI tape drives, including
     58   1.1  chopps 			Archive Viper, Cipher SCSI-2 ST150.
     59   1.7  chopps 	Scanners:
     60   1.7  chopps 		SCSI-2 scanners behaving as SCSI-2 scanner devices,
     61   1.7  chopps 		HP Scanjet II, Mustek SCSI scanner.***)
     62   1.1  chopps 	CD-ROM drives:
     63   1.1  chopps 		Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
     64   1.3  chopps 	Serial cards:
     65   1.3  chopps 		MultiFaceCard II and III
     66   1.3  chopps 		A2232
     67   1.9      is 	Amiga floppy drives with Amiga (880/1760kB) and 
     68   1.9      is 		IBM (720/1440kB) encoding. ****)
     69   1.1  chopps 	Amiga parallel port.
     70   1.1  chopps 	Amiga serial port.
     71   1.1  chopps 	Amiga mouse.
     72   1.1  chopps 
     73   1.7  chopps If its not on the above lists, there is no support for it in this
     74   1.7  chopps release. Especially (but this is an incomplete list), there is no
     75   1.7  chopps driver for:
     76   1.7  chopps 
     77   1.7  chopps 	Cyberstorm SCSI option, Blizzard IV SCSI, Blizzard 2060 SCSI,
     78   1.7  chopps 	Ferret SCSI, Oktagon SCSI.
     79   1.7  chopps 
     80   1.7  chopps Known problems with some hardware:
     81   1.7  chopps 
     82   1.7  chopps 	*) the Emplant SCSI adapter has been reported by a party to
     83   1.7  chopps 	hang after doing part of the installation without problems.
     84   1.7  chopps 
     85   1.7  chopps 	**) Fastlane SCSI is reported to show data errors and hangs at
     86   1.7  chopps 	least when used with multiple devices on the bus. This might
     87   1.7  chopps 	be a problem with any FAS board.
     88   1.7  chopps 
     89   1.7  chopps 	***) SCSI scanner support is machine independent, so it should
     90   1.7  chopps 	work, but hasn't been tested yet on most Amiga configurations.
     91  1.10      is 	There are reports that the Mustek and HP Scanjet hang if
     92   1.7  chopps 	accessed from the A3000. This might apply to other
     93   1.7  chopps 	33C93-Adapters, too.
     94   1.9      is 
     95   1.9      is 	****) Our floppy driver doesn't notice when mounted floppies are 
     96   1.9      is 	write-protected at the moment. Your floppy will stay
     97   1.9      is 	unchanged, but you might not notice that you didn't write
     98  1.10      is 	anything due to the buffer cache. Also note that HD floppy
     99  1.10      is 	drives only get detected as such if a HD floppy is inserted at
    100  1.10      is 	boot time.
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