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hardware revision 1.11 
      1 NetBSD/amiga 1.2 runs on any Amiga that has a 68020 or better CPU with
      2 some form of FPU and MMU, and on DraCos which still have a CIA.
      3 
      4 The minimal configuration requires 4M of RAM and about 75M of disk
      5 space.  To install the entire system requires much more disk space,
      6 and to run X or compile the system, more RAM is recommended.  (4M of
      7 RAM will actually allow you to compile, however it won't be speedy. X
      8 really isn't usable on a 4M system.)
      9 
     10 Here is a table of recommended HD partition sizes for a full install:
     11 	partition:	advise,	with X,	needed,	with X
     12 	root (/)	20M	20M	15M	15M
     13 	user (/usr)	80M	110M	60M 	90M
     14 	swap		----- 2M for every M ram -----
     15 	local (/local)	up to you
     16 
     17 
     18 As you may note the recommended size of /usr is 20M greater than
     19 needed. This is to leave room for a kernel source and compile tree as
     20 you will probably want to compile your own kernel. (GENERIC is large
     21 and bulky to accommodate all people).
     22 
     23 If you only have 4M of fast memory, you should make your swap partition
     24 larger, as your system will be doing much more swapping.
     25 
     26 Supported devices include:
     27 	A4000/A1200 IDE controller.
     28 	SCSI host adapters:
     29 		33c93 based boards: A2091, A3000 builtin and GVP series II.
     30 		53c80 based boards: 12 Gauge, IVS, Wordsync/Bytesync and 
     31 		    Emplant.*)
     32 		53c710 based boards: A4091, Magnum, Warp Engine, Zeus 
     33 		    and DraCo builtin.
     34 		FAS216 based SCSI boards: Fastlane Z3, Blizzard I and II**)
     35 	Video controllers:
     36 		ECS, AGA and A2024 built in on various Amigas.
     37 		Retina Z2, Retina Z3 and Altais.
     38 		Cirrus CL GD 54xx based boards:
     39 		    GVP Spectrum,
     40 		    Picasso II, II+ and IV,
     41 		    Piccolo and Piccolo SD64.
     42 		Tseng ET4000 based boards:
     43 		    Domino and Domino16M proto,
     44 		    oMniBus,
     45 		    Merlin.
     46 		A2410.
     47 		Cybervision 64.
     48 	Ethernet controllers:
     49 		A2065 Ethernet
     50 		Hydra Ethernet
     51 		ASDG Ethernet
     52 		A4066 Ethernet
     53 		Ariadne Ethernet
     54 		Quicknet Ethernet
     55 	ARCnet controllers:
     56 		A2060 ARCnet
     57 	Tape drives:
     58 		Most SCSI tape drives, including
     59 			Archive Viper, Cipher SCSI-2 ST150.
     60 	Scanners:
     61 		SCSI-2 scanners behaving as SCSI-2 scanner devices,
     62 		HP Scanjet II, Mustek SCSI scanner.***)
     63 	CD-ROM drives:
     64 		Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
     65 	Serial cards:
     66 		MultiFaceCard II and III
     67 		A2232
     68 	Amiga floppy drives with Amiga (880/1760kB) and 
     69 		IBM (720/1440kB) encoding. ****)
     70 	Amiga parallel port.
     71 	Amiga serial port.
     72 	Amiga mouse.
     73 
     74 If its not on the above lists, there is no support for it in this
     75 release. Especially (but this is an incomplete list), there is no
     76 driver for:
     77 
     78 	Cyberstorm SCSI option, Blizzard IV SCSI, Blizzard 2060 SCSI,
     79 	Ferret SCSI, Oktagon SCSI, CyberVision64/3D.
     80 
     81 Known problems with some hardware:
     82 
     83 	*) the Emplant SCSI adapter has been reported by a party to
     84 	hang after doing part of the installation without problems.
     85 
     86 	**) Fastlane SCSI is reported to show data errors and hangs at
     87 	least when used with multiple devices on the bus. This might
     88 	be a problem with any FAS board.
     89 
     90 	***) SCSI scanner support is machine independent, so it should
     91 	work, but hasn't been tested yet on most Amiga configurations.
     92 	There are reports that the Mustek and HP Scanjet hang if
     93 	accessed from the A3000. This might apply to other
     94 	33C93-Adapters, too.
     95 
     96 	****) Our floppy driver doesn't notice when mounted floppies are 
     97 	write-protected at the moment. Your floppy will stay
     98 	unchanged, but you might not notice that you didn't write
     99 	anything due to the buffer cache. Also note that HD floppy
    100 	drives only get detected as such if a HD floppy is inserted at
    101 	boot time.
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