On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 02:12:01AM -0700, Erik van Roode wrote: > On Friday 03 September 2004 05:22, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 10:59:46PM -0700, Erik van Roode wrote: > > > But there was a vmlinuz-2.4.26-amiga? > > Yes. > > > > X-surf ethernet is not detected automatically (but IDE ports are seen). > > > Christian already mentioned the solution: specify zorro8390. > > > > Did you have to manually load this? I wonder how this could be > > automated. > > Manual. Geert already responded with a answer to the second question. > > > > My second attempt was installing to a spare 1G scsi drive, but I always > > > get stuck at the partitioning (_amiga_find_free_blocks - Loop detected at > > > block 0). > > > Sorry, no idea about the rest of it. Sounds like a hardware problem. > > I hooked up an IDE drive. Different controller, different drive, same problem > (can't partition). I ended up using a combination of HDToolbox, mke2fs and > managed to get past the partitioning. Running 'install base system' now... > > parted 1.6.9 doesn't really seem to like AmigaOS RDB. mklabel fails, sorry, I > do not have the actual error message. I suspect I used a ZIP disk without an > RDB for my first installation attempt. > > /usr/share/partitioner/m68k.sh references amiga-fdisk (but that doesn't seem > to exist on the system). Hmmm, this doesn't sound good at all. I was under the impression that amiga was working. It would be nice to have a good bug against parted. So we need to have amiga-fdisk? -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature