On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 05:35:43PM +0300, nzabrod wrote: > >Typically Amigas are maxed out at 128 MB Fast Ram on the accelerator card > >(plus any other "FastRAM", which is attached via ZorroII/III bus or on the > >mainboard, but that's comparably slow with 13 MB/s), because there are > >usually no more CAS lines. > >So, even when you would have 64 MB PS/2 SIMMS, you would only have 128M on a > >(let's say) CyberStorm MK2 accel card... > > The problem is: If you will actually find 128MB Simm on eBay, nobody will give you a warranty, that it WILL work in your AMIGA. =( > And about installer requrements: I think, that Amigans need really simplified installer, that will install only basic packages like gcc/libc, asm, essential libraries, make, autoconf... and all that stuff, that needed to build OTHER packages. Also SSHD, FTPD are really reqired, AFAIK. > Also I think, that ppl, who use linux on amiga are more technically educated, and most of them know, what they are doing - they don't need a GUI-based installer (yes, it's handy, but it eats resources). So, I like netbsd way of installing. After generic install I get system, ready to build packages and it capable of handling ssh access (I don't have a monitor, so I connect amiga to TV on install time) and ftp access (I can upload/download files). > In most cases it's really enough to start your m68k-linux life. And for Debian we have LARGE pre-compiled amount of packets. Future is not so dark =). Have you installed with debian-installer lately? The GUI is text-based. You have the option of installing no more than base (which is less than build-essential + openssh-server). The main ram hog is the partitioner -- now if we could just skip that part .... ;) -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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