Re: Installing Debian on Amiga
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, stephen wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:24 am, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> > > I've been looking through the first cd to install linux, and can't find
> > > the installer. I have looked through the insall instructions for the m68k
> > > on the debian website and got lost/confused.
> >
> > You should find amiboot in /install/tools/amiga/ along with some
> > StartInstall scripts which depend on your graphics card. In theory
> > clicking one of these should kick everything off.
>
> My A1200 is standard, and has just the normal amiga video system.
> Can I still install debian onto the machine?
>
> I had a look at those files. They wont run etc when I click on them.
> I'm running 3.1 roms, with 3.9 os, using the cdrom driver that comes with
> 3.1/3.9. All the files are not in long file name format, and are 8.3.
> I had a look at one of them and ran it's command by hand. The kernal goes
> through it's startup and then I get a black screen with the monitor being
> over driven. (it's a standard 1084s)
On AGA (which your A1200 has) amifb defaults to a VGA mode, which is not
compatible with your A1084. You can override this by adding e.g. `video=pal' to
the kernel command line.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
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