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From: ayrjola@hut.fi (Ari Yrjölä)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: How do I get started with NetBSD on an Amiga?
Date: 05 Feb 1994 14:51:56 GMT
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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In-reply-to: reedv@lib403.its.rpi.edu's message of 4 Feb 1994 19:02:56 GMT
In article <2iu650$p2n@usenet.rpi.edu> reedv@lib403.its.rpi.edu (Vince Reed -- "Sub Zero" ) writes:
> A friend just recently hande an Amiga 1000 with a 50Mhz '030 board and
> 4MB ram over to me :) I wanna run NetBSD, and eventually linux. I read the faq,
> but I must have overlooked the section about where to get the amiga stuff.
> I know everything is supposed to be on sun-lamp, but it's always busy. Where is
> a good mirror?
Try ftp.eunet.ch:pub/amigabsd, which is the 'official' site for
NetBSD-Amiga binaries and other stuff. It seems that stuff is
mirrored to nic.funet.fi:pub/amiga/unix/netbsd also.
I think there is a mirror site in USA, but can't remember
now what that was.
You don't mention what SCSI controller you have, check out the
DOCS directory and FAQs there to see if you have the right hardware
to run NetBSD. There isn't yet any floppy driver for NetBSD-Amiga.
> Is X supported for amigas with the EGS chipset? I'm trying to
> get away with spending as little as possible on this thing, as I`ll be buying
> a computer soon.
I guess you mean ECS chipset as EGS is a windowing system :-)
Yes, X can be used with ECS.
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