mark_k: thanks a lot!
I came across the same problem -WinUAE installation not seeing the HDD- but I am not sure how I got it working. On my currently working installation the hardfile settings are as device DH0, read/write, SCSI5 (required to be 5), RDB mode enabled. I have asked for a passcode needed for registration in the www.amigaunix.com wiki but never got a reply. I sent it to the email seen in the main page. I have screen caps of the installation in WinUAE and I have just re-drawn some of the Amiga Unix logos (like the one on the amigaunix.com header) and I think they would look nice on the site. I'd like to help. |
The not-detecting-the-HD problem I was having seems to have been caused, directly or indirectly, by having more than 16MB motherboard fast RAM. At least, I tested a couple of times just now, and with 16MB motherboard RAM the installer did detect the hard disk. With 32MB or 64MB m/b RAM it didn't.
By the way, the AMIX installer is another good demo for the NTSC-mode floppy DMA bug. |
(yes I'm back, laptop that could run winuae died but replacement is showing up the day after tomorrow)
AMIX's kernel is hardwired to recognize only between 4 and 16 megs of Fast RAM unfortunately. No RAM cards (even zorroII ones) will work since the kernel seems to map the memory address of the scsi drive wrong with more RAM... Such are the joys of early SystemVR4 I guess. |
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I have made a searchable and chapter-marked version of the Installation manual PDF. It looks rather bad as the reverse-sides of the pages show thrue. I have also made some re-makes of the logos etc. Anywhere I could upload them? Still no answer from amigaunix.com. I also test-booted the instal disk on my A3000T -motherboard and it works. I am hoping to get this machine assembled and install Amix on it. |
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gtar xvf /dev/dsk/c5d0s0 Oh and I've started using WINE for WinUAE (latest 2.7 beta) in Ubuntu 13.10 and the keyboard translates into gobbledygook in AMIX. I've tried switching keyboard layouts from Swiss French to US English but it makes no difference... anyone else had this problem? |
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I was just yesterday trying to figure this out by myself. I almost got there and I was already able to get something moved into the Amix system. Now I tried something like this and got the R11R5 installed. I get some errors (see pic, also about file permissions that couldn't be read), usually at the end of a tar file and some files didn't seem to transfer. Couldn't figure out everything but now startx gets some new stuff up. Noth: have you tried any other windows app, do you get correct keyboard there? Or with WinUAE and AmigaDOS? I have now been running WinUAE in Wine, too on my MacBook Pro and it works nicely. |
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Uncompressed tar archives are always a multiple of 512 bytes in length. At least GNU tar defaults to making archives a multiple of 10KB in length. That doesn't apply to compressed tar archives of course. But maybe the errors Amiga_CDTV is seeing are because he added a compressed tar archive as hardfile, which won't work properly due to the probably-not-a-multiple-of-512 length.
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Thanks for the tip! I created the archive with a Mac OS X tool called GUI Tar.
I just tried to re-created the tar archive, this time from OS X terminal. On default settings the archive was a bit bigger (some hundred bytes) than the first one but it had no effect. Next I tried to create the archive this way: Code:
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Well this is weird. I turned up the debug on my amix config using WINE and hey presto the keyboard now just about displays what I want. Very confusing! Oh and if anyone has a working install tape image for 2.1 please contact in private, mine's the one off amigaunix.com and it seems corrupted.
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Where is the path set? I am having little difficulty editing anything with vi, but I am learning ;) Noth: see Toni's post on previous page, the 2.1 install image is in the Zone. |
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By the way are any of you able to get the kickstart boot screen to come up in WinUAE under WINE ? Even with cpu speed set to A500/A1200 approximation it doesn't come up... Maybe it's my touchpad, but it does seem weird (yes, holding down both corners to get left & right mouse buttons). All I wanted to do was dualboot AMIX & Workbench 3.1 so I could get to play around with the tape drive between both OSes.
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Make sure your X server doesn't have the "press left and right buttons to emulate a middle button press" feature enabled. And maybe try using a USB mouse?
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How do I get access to The Zone? When you are ready, The Zone can be accessed by using the link in the navigation bar at the top of the page, next to the Log Out link. |
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I wonder what I am doing wrong. I followed these instructions. Now trying to "startx" I get "Xsvga Version 1.4 / X Window System" and couple of seconds later "giving up. /usr/X/bin/xinit: Protocol error (errno 71): unable to connect to X server". |
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Just tried the USB mouse method for the bootmenu (took me ages to find where I'd hidden mine), it works perfectly thanks (no my X config doesn't have third button emu set up ... yet). Quote:
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A couple of observations:
a) for dualbooting, you can add 32bit memory to your config and AMIX will ignore it, but AmigaOS 3.1 will see it and benefit greatly from having more than 16megs of FastRam. b) launching Xsvga on a fresh install of the Xsvga package's X11R4.tar gives me a blank white screen and the alt+function keys won't work for switching virtual terms. I'm going to do some more testing on this, I want my PicassoII accelerated screen back! all testing done using the latest beta of WinUAE in WINE. |
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