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Karloff
2024 Apr 11, 3:46pm
Karloff
2024 Apr 11, 3:46pm
richwicks says
It didn't run well, that's for sure. Very slow. There wasn't really a "distro" to speak of either. Just a handful of archives for the various file systems, like etc.tar.gz, usr.tar.gz, the mkfs tool to format the file systems and, if I recall, an executable that ran under AmigaDOS to kick off the kernel. You created your partitions, used mkfs to format them, then untar the archives into their respective file systems, set the fstab, copy the booter in (maybe there was a boot-sector tool as well, my memory is foggy on that) and away you go.
Don't think I ever got X11 working. Not like it would have been usable on that system anyhow. The 16MHz 68030 processor struggled at the command line with that OS, and it was pretty much the minimum you could run it on due to requiring an MMU for it's memory management, which lesser Amigas lacked.
I think it was called Watchtower Linux.
My first x86 Linux was also Slackware. Ran OpenBSD for a number of years as well. Upgrades with that OS were a terrible hassle though.
You ran Linux on an A3000??????
It didn't run well, that's for sure. Very slow. There wasn't really a "distro" to speak of either. Just a handful of archives for the various file systems, like etc.tar.gz, usr.tar.gz, the mkfs tool to format the file systems and, if I recall, an executable that ran under AmigaDOS to kick off the kernel. You created your partitions, used mkfs to format them, then untar the archives into their respective file systems, set the fstab, copy the booter in (maybe there was a boot-sector tool as well, my memory is foggy on that) and away you go.
Don't think I ever got X11 working. Not like it would have been usable on that system anyhow. The 16MHz 68030 processor struggled at the command line with that OS, and it was pretty much the minimum you could run it on due to requiring an MMU for it's memory management, which lesser Amigas lacked.
I think it was called Watchtower Linux.
My first x86 Linux was also Slackware. Ran OpenBSD for a number of years as well. Upgrades with that OS were a terrible hassle though.
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My first 'puter was a SWTP 6800 in 1975 while I was stationed in Germany, then a TRS-80, and then in 1979 my first disk based PC, Heathkit H89.