Re: Problem with Sarge-NetInstall m68k on my Amiga (won't even start...)

2004-11-10 Thread Brad Boyer
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 07:24:58PM +0100, Tobias Matschke wrote: > Would be glad to do so... > But I could use some hint, how to do this. No problem spending some time > on it. But I'm not really sure where to start from. The easiest place to start is probably the other NCR5380 based drivers. Tak

Re: Problem with Sarge-NetInstall m68k on my Amiga (won't even start...)

2004-11-10 Thread Tobias Matschke
Would be glad to do so... But I could use some hint, how to do this. No problem spending some time on it. But I'm not really sure where to start from. Greetings, Tobias Geert Uytterhoeven schrieb: On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Tobias Matschke wrote: On amiga.resource.cx the Nexus is also

Re: Problem with Sarge-NetInstall m68k on my Amiga (won't even start...)

2004-11-10 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Tobias Matschke wrote: > On amiga.resource.cx the Nexus is also listed: > http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search.pl?dir=scsi#nexus > According to them the AMD-IC is the controller-chip... > Something new on the issue? Yep, an NCR5380-based SCSI card. Linux has a driver for this c

Re: Problem with Sarge-NetInstall m68k on my Amiga (won't even start...)

2004-11-10 Thread Tobias Matschke
Hello again! On amiga.resource.cx the Nexus is also listed: http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search.pl?dir=scsi#nexus According to them the AMD-IC is the controller-chip... Something new on the issue? Greetings, Tobias Tobias Matschke schrieb: I found a high quality picture

Re: Problem with Sarge-NetInstall m68k on my Amiga (won't even start...)

2004-10-30 Thread Tobias Matschke
I found a high quality picture of the Nexus at http://www.amiga-hardware.com/nexus_big.jpg. It has several PALs on it which's programming won't be easy to figure out. However there is a bigger IC made by AMD on it, which reads as "AM5380PC". The manual (yeah! I kept it all these years...) m

Re: Problem with Sarge-NetInstall m68k on my Amiga (won't even start...)

2004-10-30 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Tuomas Vainikka wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, TM wrote: > > > At the moment I'm trying to tell the installer, that I've got a Nexus-SCSI > > > controller, which seems to me is the next obstacle on the way. I'll be > > > browsing the FAQs and compat

Re: Problem with Sarge-NetInstall m68k on my Amiga (won't even start...)

2004-10-30 Thread Tuomas Vainikka
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, TM wrote: At the moment I'm trying to tell the installer, that I've got a Nexus-SCSI controller, which seems to me is the next obstacle on the way. I'll be browsing the FAQs and compatibility lists for this issue. I don't think the Nexus is sup

Re: Problem with Sarge-NetInstall m68k on my Amiga (won't even start...)

2004-10-30 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, TM wrote: > At the moment I'm trying to tell the installer, that I've got a Nexus-SCSI > controller, which seems to me is the next obstacle on the way. I'll be > browsing the FAQs and compatibility lists for this issue. I don't think the Nexus is supported yet :-( Do you know

Re: Problem with Sarge-NetInstall m68k on my Amiga (won't even start...)

2004-10-30 Thread TM
Hi! This did it! Thanks very much! I had to change "vmlinuz" into "//kernels/vmlinuz-2.4.27-amiga", too. But that was no problem - I know the CD's directories in and out, since my search for root.bin ;-). Omitting the dots was no further problem, but thanks you mentioned it. The Installer does

Re: Problem with Sarge-NetInstall m68k on my Amiga (won't even start...)

2004-10-29 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 01:42:44AM +0200, Tobias Matschke wrote: > > I downloaded the latest NetInstall ISO > > (http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/m68k/pre-rc2/sarge-m68k-netinst.iso) > > > > and tried to install debian on my Am

Re: Problem with Sarge-NetInstall m68k on my Amiga (won't even start...)

2004-10-29 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 02:14:58PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 07:03:08AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > UAE doesn't support linux. :-( > > With patches you can make UAE at least run StartInstall and amiboot. But I > got only 1 BogoMIPS and the boot frooze p

Re: Problem with Sarge-NetInstall m68k on my Amiga (won't even start...)

2004-10-29 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 07:03:08AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 01:42:44AM +0200, Tobias Matschke wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I downloaded the latest NetInstall ISO > > (http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/m68k/pre-rc2/sarge-m68k-netinst.iso) > > > > an

Re: Problem with Sarge-NetInstall m68k on my Amiga (won't even start...)

2004-10-29 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 01:42:44AM +0200, Tobias Matschke wrote: > Hi! > > I downloaded the latest NetInstall ISO > (http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/m68k/pre-rc2/sarge-m68k-netinst.iso) > > and tried to install debian on my Amiga... But I can't even start the > installer,

Re: Problem with Sarge-NetInstall m68k on my Amiga (won't even start...)

2004-10-28 Thread Shawn D'Alimonte
Tobias Matschke wrote: But I can't even start the installer, because it doesn't find the size of the ram-disk. This may be related to the fact, that there ist no "root.bin" throughout the whole CD.> The error message says it is looking for '../root.bin' which is not a valid AmigaDOS path (Unles

Problem with Sarge-NetInstall m68k on my Amiga (won't even start...)

2004-10-28 Thread Tobias Matschke
Hi! I downloaded the latest NetInstall ISO (http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/m68k/pre-rc2/sarge-m68k-netinst.iso) and tried to install debian on my Amiga... But I can't even start the installer, because it doesn't find the size of the ram-disk. This may be related to the f