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Originally Posted by strim
It should work fine with the NetBSD, although as far as I know nobody tested it yet  . However... if you'd like to run NetBSD/amiga in graphics mode with X then 68030 is not enough (68030 is low end for NetBSD, like 68000 for AmigaOS). It's just too slow.
For example: - On Amiga 600 equipped with ACA630/25MHz + 32MB RAM installing the NetBSD from network (using PCMCIA ethernet card) takes around 4 hours.
- Boot of a clean installed system on the above mentioned A600: ~4 minutes (from power on to login prompt).
- Creating keys for SSH server takes: ~15 minutes.
- Logging on to this A600 with SSH: ~2 minutes.
- Starting X11 (with startx, default configuration): ~8 minutes. And it's barely usable once it starts.
So... 68060 is much faster and allows using the NetBSD comfortably. |
Excellent post. Thank you! This is exactly what I wanted to know, I had a feeling that without at least an 060 it would run like an absolute dog. Looks like I will have to start looking for a Blizzard 1260.