hardware revision 1.12 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.
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 Blizzard IV, Blizzard 2060, CyberSCSI Mk I**)
36 Video controllers:
37 ECS, AGA and A2024 built in on various Amigas.
38 Retina Z2, Retina Z3 and Altais.
39 Cirrus CL GD 54xx based boards:
40 GVP Spectrum,
41 Picasso II, II+ and IV,
42 Piccolo and Piccolo SD64.
43 Tseng ET4000 based boards:
44 Domino and Domino16M proto,
45 oMniBus,
46 Merlin.
47 A2410.
48 Cybervision 64.
49 Ethernet controllers:
50 A2065 Ethernet
51 Hydra Ethernet
52 ASDG Ethernet
53 A4066 Ethernet
54 Ariadne Ethernet
55 Quicknet Ethernet
56 ARCnet controllers:
57 A2060 ARCnet
58 Tape drives:
59 Most SCSI tape drives, including
60 Archive Viper, Cipher SCSI-2 ST150.
61 Scanners:
62 SCSI-2 scanners behaving as SCSI-2 scanner devices,
63 HP Scanjet II, Mustek SCSI scanner.***)
64 CD-ROM drives:
65 Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
66 Serial cards:
67 MultiFaceCard II and III
68 A2232
69 Amiga floppy drives with Amiga (880/1760kB) and
70 IBM (720/1440kB) encoding. ****)
71 Amiga parallel port.
72 Amiga serial port.
73 Amiga mouse.
74 DraCo serial port, including serial mouse.
75
76 If its not on the above lists, there is no support for it in this
77 release. Especially (but this is an incomplete list), there is no
78 driver for:
79
80 Cyberstorm SCSI option, Blizzard IV SCSI, Blizzard 2060 SCSI,
81 Ferret SCSI, Oktagon SCSI, CyberVision64/3D.
82
83 Known problems with some hardware:
84
85 *) the Emplant SCSI adapter has been reported by a party to
86 hang after doing part of the installation without problems.
87
88 **) Fastlane SCSI is reported to show data errors and hangs at
89 least when used with multiple devices on the bus. This might
90 be a problem with any FAS board.
91
92 ***) SCSI scanner support is machine independent, so it should
93 work, but hasn't been tested yet on most Amiga configurations.
94 There are reports that the Mustek and HP Scanjet hang if
95 accessed from the A3000. This might apply to other
96 33C93-Adapters, too.
97
98 ****) Our floppy driver doesn't notice when mounted floppies are
99 write-protected at the moment. Your floppy will stay
100 unchanged, but you might not notice that you didn't write
101 anything due to the buffer cache. Also note that HD floppy
102 drives only get detected as such if a HD floppy is inserted at
103 boot time.
104