Re: Progress on m68k images
Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> > Fair enough. Rather, I'm glad that's over, with your invaluable help.
> >
> > > >Can't wait to get one of these CDs to test ...
> Are we really over, I mean _really_? I didnt come back at midnight to tell
> about my tests of the CD... Ok, here we go:
I think we're _really_ over. Look, it took Steve a day to build the
images, and
he scheduled another day for propagating the images across the net.
Tomorrow at
midnight is release ... doesn't really leave time for another Amiga
floppies
build, remake of the CD, etc., does it?
> When I tested it via the MAC emulator it didnt want to boot, well, better
> so. I guess its because penguin said MMU required, I guess the MMU is not
> emulated... anyway, I could open all the drawers, only the icons are
That's normal; if your emulator doesn't emulate a 68030 it's not supposed
to boot (imagine booting Linux in a Mac emulator :-). AFAIK vmac doesn't
support virtual memory yet.
It attempted to start, that's good enough for me.
> cluttered wildly around. Maybe the info files would not be shown if there
> are not in the resource tree (not that I know much about MAC filesystems,
> but those files need not be visible on the MAC, I could see and read the
> READMEs without info files).
We can't hide them for Mac, the hybrid filesystem shows everything :-) If
files
are invisible for AmigaOS unless accompanied by a .info I'd say AmigaOS
has a problem.
> Ok, now the problems: I installed on an empty partition, everything went fine
> till I came to the modules section, my ethernetcard (ariadne2) is not
> recognized. While probing for ariadne2 I get:
> /lib/modules/2.0.36/apne.o not found
> I get the same when I probe for apne, so I think there is a wrong entry
> somewhere in the install setup? I checked all other eth cards then, they
> load at least the correct module... why didnt I notice that before? I guess
> its a little late for that now?
Is the module present? It's not supposed to be in lib/modules/2.0.36/ but
rather
in ../net/ anyway. Who built that modules, anyway?
> The other problem is /dev/mouse, after installing all that is needed for
> xfree (using Chris' CDs from Feb 16th for the setup then) startx failed,
> since /dev/mouse did not exist. I made a symlink to /dev/amigamouse and
> everything went fine then.
No, /dev/mouse doesn't exist. The latest X startup will apparently use the
proper mouse device (/dev/amigamouse in your case) directly. At least it
did for
me this weekend.
> To summarize, the CD is fully usable on Amiga, maybe we need an artist for
> icons and stuff, only ariadne2 users are a little bitten since the module
> isnt probed correctly (I know why I dont build that as module usually ;-)
Seems good enough for me :-)
Michael
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