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.
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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
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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:
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77 1.7 chopps Cyberstorm SCSI option, Blizzard IV SCSI, Blizzard 2060 SCSI,
78 1.7 chopps Ferret SCSI, Oktagon SCSI.
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80 1.7 chopps Known problems with some hardware:
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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.
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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.
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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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