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crash dumps and the increased kernel source size, respectively - mention the newly available IBM (720/1440k) floppy encoding and the floppy driver write-protect bug.
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NetBSD/amiga 1.2 runs on any Amiga that has a 68020 or better CPU with
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some form of FPU and MMU, and on DraCos which still have a CIA.
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The minimal configuration requires 4M of RAM and about 65M of disk
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space. To install the entire system requires much more disk space,
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and to run X or compile the system, more RAM is recommended. (4M of
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RAM will actually allow you to compile, however it won't be speedy. X
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really isn't usable on a 4M system.)
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Here is a table of recommended HD partition sizes for a full install:
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partition: advise, with X, needed, with X
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root (/) 20M 20M 15M 15M
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user (/usr) 65M 100M 55M 90M
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swap ----- 2M for every M ram -----
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local (/local) up to you
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As you may note the recommended size of /usr is 20M greater than
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needed. This is to leave room for a kernel source and compile tree as
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you will probably want to compile your own kernel. (GENERIC is large
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and bulky to accommodate all people).
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If you only have 4M of fast memory, you should make your swap partition
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larger, as your system will be doing much more swapping.
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Supported devices include:
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A4000/A1200 IDE controller.
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SCSI host adapters:
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33c93 based boards: A2091, A3000 builtin and GVP series II.
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53c80 based boards: 12 Gauge, IVS, Wordsync/Bytesync and
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Emplant.*)
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53c710 based boards: A4091, Magnum, Warp Engine, Zeus
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and DraCo builtin.
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FAS216 based SCSI boards: FastLane Z3, Blizzard I and II**)
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Video controllers:
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ECS, AGA and A2024 built in on various Amigas.
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Retina Z2, Retina Z3 and Altais.
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Picasso II.
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GVP Spectrum.
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Piccolo.
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Piccolo SD64.
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A2410.
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Cybervision 64.
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Domino.
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Merlin (Zorro 2 only).
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Omnibus.
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Ethernet controllers:
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A2065 Ethernet
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Hydra Ethernet
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ASDG Ethernet
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A4066 Ethernet
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Ariadne Ethernet
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Quicknet Ethernet
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ARCnet controllers:
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A2060 ARCnet
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Tape drives:
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Most SCSI tape drives, including
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Archive Viper, Cipher SCSI-2 ST150.
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Scanners:
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SCSI-2 scanners behaving as SCSI-2 scanner devices,
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HP Scanjet II, Mustek SCSI scanner.***)
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CD-ROM drives:
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Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
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Serial cards:
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MultiFaceCard II and III
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A2232
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Amiga floppy drives with Amiga (880/1760kB) and
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IBM (720/1440kB) encoding. ****)
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Amiga parallel port.
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Amiga serial port.
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Amiga mouse.
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If its not on the above lists, there is no support for it in this
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release. Especially (but this is an incomplete list), there is no
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driver for:
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Cyberstorm SCSI option, Blizzard IV SCSI, Blizzard 2060 SCSI,
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Ferret SCSI, Oktagon SCSI.
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Known problems with some hardware:
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*) the Emplant SCSI adapter has been reported by a party to
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hang after doing part of the installation without problems.
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**) Fastlane SCSI is reported to show data errors and hangs at
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least when used with multiple devices on the bus. This might
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be a problem with any FAS board.
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***) SCSI scanner support is machine independent, so it should
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work, but hasn't been tested yet on most Amiga configurations.
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There are reports that it Mustek and HP Scanjet hang if
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accessed from the A3000. This might apply to other
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33C93-Adapters, too.
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****) Our floppy driver doesn't notice when mounted floppies are
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write-protected at the moment. Your floppy will stay
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unchanged, but you might not notice that you didn't write
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anything due to the buffer cache.
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