AMIX works!

[Michael Zacherle]

Hi all,

this is just a short note to announce that my A3000T is now
finally running AMIX 2.1!

Things I discovered in the last weeks:
- The SCSI-chip of my A3000T and the AMIX boot disks do not work
with my streamer
- I had to start the install, let it run until it wasn't able to
read from the scanner. Then I used Zip drives to copy the AMIX
install data via cpio to the AMIX hard drive (mounted in /mnt)
- about 60% of the 29 files were installable with cpio; the other
40% I had to uncompress first
- The only thing left was installing the kernel and the boot block.
I did it by copying /etc/profile (this is the install skript)
via Zip disk to my Linux box, edit it there (remove everything
that mounts, formats, checks and installs packages), copy it
back and run it

That's it! I now have X11 and I can ping my router via Ethernet,
I just don't know how to set up the network. The route command is
different from what I know.

I hope that this will help you to install AMIX on _your_ HD! ;-)
Maybe I will even do a dd from my HD...

Bye

Michael

[Stephan Niehues]

Post by Michael Zacherle
Hi all,
this is just a short note to announce that my A3000T is now
finally running AMIX 2.1!

Nice

Post by Michael Zacherle
- The SCSI-chip of my A3000T and the AMIX boot disks do not work
with my streamer

Welcher Streamer?
Welcher Chip?

I Think i becam this Problem to.

Post by Michael Zacherle
That's it! I now have X11 and I can ping my router via Ethernet,
I just don't know how to set up the network. The route command is
different from what I know.

Is there nothing in the Manual?

Post by Michael Zacherle
I hope that this will help you to install AMIX on _your_ HD! ;-)
Maybe I will even do a dd from my HD...

[Michael Zacherle]

Post by Stephan Niehues

Post by Michael Zacherle
this is just a short note to announce that my A3000T is now
finally running AMIX 2.1!
- The SCSI-chip of my A3000T and the AMIX boot disks do not work
with my streamer

Welcher Streamer?
Welcher Chip?
I Think i becam this Problem to.

Chip is a WD-08 (not-Proto-version) if memory serves right. I
found a dealer that still sells the AMD chip in germany. If
someone is interested, then please tell me _soon_ !

Streamer is an Archive, I guess. My Wangtek will be given to me
by a friend soon.

Post by Stephan Niehues

Post by Michael Zacherle
That's it! I now have X11 and I can ping my router via Ethernet,
I just don't know how to set up the network. The route command is
different from what I know.

Is there nothing in the Manual?

No, unfortunately not (at least not much). I will have to find a
SysV manual.

Bye

Michael

[Nuntio Pericoloso]

Hi you all,

I have a curiosity.
Last weeks I was working in a little study about the earliest Unix Systems,
but I can't say too much about AMIX-Amiga Unix System, baecause now I do not
have any real Amiga available.

The question is: is possible reach AMIX working within an Amiga emulator
(UAE, Winuae, whatever)?

In this case... What type of configuration will work?
I tried to boot some images of the first AMIX installation disk within
various versions of Winuae, but the emulated Amiga hangs before read the '60
track.

Any idea, some helpful comment?
Thanks in advance,

Paco

[Robert Tiismus]

There are 2MB video memory. Why is it then so, that 4-bit
colour depth seems to be the maximum? The video chipset
can't handle more than 16 colours?

The ECS chipset in A3000 can handle "normal" (palette based)
- 1...5 bitplanes (max 32 colors) in Low Res modes
- 1...4 bitplanes (max 16 colors) in High Res modes
- 1...2 bitplanes (max 4 colors) in Super High Res modes

<snip>

for displaying photographic images (JPEGs and the like),
but not so good for desktop apps. See <http://amiga.nvg
.org/amiga/reference/Hardware_Manual_guide/node008F.html>
for more information about that.

<snip>
Thank you for a lenghty explanation. The amiga.nvg.org was too a really
interesting reading :)

Robert Tiismus

[Robert Tiismus]

Post by Michael Zacherle
this is just a short note to announce that my A3000T is now
finally running AMIX 2.1!

I also installed the 2.1 on A3000UX without a problem. One thing I

Uuh, you were able to install from Tape? I never succeeded trying this,
and believe me, I tried very hard...
Could you please tell me what kind of tape drive you used? And even
more important, what SCSI chip is inside your A3000 (or is it a A3000T)?
It could be a WD chip or an AMD one.

Sorry for aged answer, unfortunately my local news server did not
mirror your message. I stumbled on it by accident when searching
google groups... If it helps you: I used 3M DC 6150 tape in Commodore
A3070. The SCSI chip in my A3000UX is WD33C93A-PL.

Best wishes,

Robert Tiismus

[Michael Zacherle]

Post by Robert Tiismus

Post by Michael Zacherle
this is just a short note to announce that my A3000T is now
finally running AMIX 2.1!

google groups... If it helps you: I used 3M DC 6150 tape in Commodore
A3070. The SCSI chip in my A3000UX is WD33C93A-PL.

Hmm. So it seems to work with the WD chip. Interesting. Unfortunately now
I don't have a clue why my setup soesn't work with the install disks.

Ciao

Michael

[Robert Tiismus]

Post by Michael Zacherle

Post by Robert Tiismus
google groups... If it helps you: I used 3M DC 6150 tape in Commodore
A3070. The SCSI chip in my A3000UX is WD33C93A-PL.

Hmm. So it seems to work with the WD chip. Interesting. Unfortunately now
I don't have a clue why my setup soesn't work with the install disks.

One thing that may be relevant: I could not find DD floppies to dump
v2.1 images, so I used AMIX v2.03 original installation floppies.
Installation went without a single error message.

Robert Tiismus

[Michael Zacherle]

Post by Robert Tiismus

Post by Michael Zacherle
Hmm. So it seems to work with the WD chip. Interesting. Unfortunately now
I don't have a clue why my setup soesn't work with the install disks.

One thing that may be relevant: I could not find DD floppies to dump
v2.1 images, so I used AMIX v2.03 original installation floppies.

So you installed AMIX2.1 with the install disks from 2.03? Isn't there a
different set of files on the tape?

Ciao

Michael

[Robert Tiismus]

Post by Michael Zacherle

Post by Robert Tiismus
One thing that may be relevant: I could not find DD floppies to dump
v2.1 images, so I used AMIX v2.03 original installation floppies.

So you installed AMIX2.1 with the install disks from 2.03? Isn't there a
different set of files on the tape?

Yes, there is, but the first record contains the 'index' of the
content for other records. I was not sure about kernel before
installing, but it seems that it too is installed from the tape. I am
not telling that that's the way one should follow to get the
installation going. It's just the way I installed AMIX v2.1.

Best wishes,

Robert Tiismus

[r***@yahoo.com]

hi does any one want to donate their 2.1 tape to tosec so other ppl can
use it =].

I have Amix 2.01 and 2.03, but would like to get the latest release ?
Amix 2.1???