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Hardware News : Debian on your SAM based Amiga

Posted by Lecta on 2009/11/29 0:00:00 (3114 reads) News by the same author

Many people don't know that they can also run various Linuxes on their Amigas. There is a long tradition of doing this from the A3000 UX, through the AmigaONE XE and now the Sam 440ep and Sam flex.

This news isn't usually our metier, as we concentrate on matters AmigaOS 1.3 to AmigaOS 4.x and beyond, but from time to time it is good to keep abreast of what other things we can do with Amiga hardware.

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(foreward by DaveP)

Bassano del Grappa (Italy) 28-Nov-2009

ACube Systems released today a new EXPERIMENTAL version of Debian net installer with GART enabled.
This version should bring accelerated graphics to all our customer using Linux Debian on Sam440ep and Sam440ep-flex.

Kernel included in this ISO is version 2.6.31.5

Please pay attention to the word EXPERIMENTAL.

You can download the Netinstall ISO from:

http://www.acube-systems.biz/index.php?page=hardware&pid=1

or

http://www.acube-systems.biz/index.php?page=hardware&pid=2

Thanks to Giuseppe Coviello fot his work.

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acefnq	Published: 2009/11/29 10:29 Updated: 2009/11/29 10:29
Quite a regular Joined: 11/25/2006 From: Adelaide South Australia Comments: 622	Re: Debian on your SAM based Amiga Installed and got some kernel failures eventually resulting in rw errors. Unfortunately fsck could not open sonme libraries and so could not repair. Installing again for another try. Good to see development is still ongoing. ace

Antique	Published: 2009/11/29 11:42 Updated: 2009/11/29 11:42
Home away from home Joined: 11/30/2006 From: Norway Comments: 2628	Re: Debian on your SAM based Amiga How is it to install? Difficult? Or is it easy to setup and install? Lst time i tried to install was on my old A1. Not funny at all. Much fidling and writing...

acefnq	Published: 2009/11/29 12:24 Updated: 2009/11/29 12:24
Quite a regular Joined: 11/25/2006 From: Adelaide South Australia Comments: 622	Re: Debian on your SAM based Amiga Pretty simple on the SAM. I used Elwood's guide originally. ace

acefnq	Published: 2009/11/29 13:57 Updated: 2009/11/29 13:57
Quite a regular Joined: 11/25/2006 From: Adelaide South Australia Comments: 622	Re: Debian on your SAM based Amiga Reinstalled and so far no kernel problems. Posting this from Opera 10.10 and it faaaast! Using under KDE. Well done ACube nice update. ace

tommysammy	Published: 2009/11/29 17:43 Updated: 2009/11/29 17:43
Quite a regular Joined: 06/01/2009 From: Germany Comments: 733	Re: Debian on your SAM based Amiga Where can i get Elwood's guide ? I want try to install it on my Sam

nubechecorre	Published: 2009/11/29 18:34 Updated: 2009/11/29 18:34
Just can't stay away Joined: 11/24/2006 From: Sanremo Comments: 1899	Re: Debian on your SAM based Amiga installed, how to install ppc codecs for dvx ? and how to install opengl ? using the system profiler i have the opengl vendor blank..

gerograph	Published: 2009/11/29 19:04 Updated: 2009/11/29 19:04
Not too shy to talk Joined: 11/21/2008 From: Comments: 339	Re: Debian on your SAM based Amiga @tommysammy as long as you are online: http://elwoodb.free.fr/articles/Sam440/ Elwoods dualboot install guide for SAM

gerograph	Published: 2009/11/29 19:09 Updated: 2009/11/29 19:25
Not too shy to talk Joined: 11/21/2008 From: Comments: 339	Re: Debian on your SAM based Amiga Have a look at A1k.org for pics and more links concerning install of Debian for SAM. At the moment my SAM is at Alinea, so I cannot try the new update. If you try the old Debian (non experimental Version) I would suggest using KDE as Desktop, seems to be a lot faster... I used Gnome or Xfce. But next time it will definitly be KDE !!! O.k. here is my Review focused on Linux on SAM: http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread.php?t=14463 Ups, forgot... Debian team recently changed something on the download mirrors, donnot know wether this will also affect the EXPERIMENTAL new Version or not. Install Debian from CD only with unplugged Ethernet. Check out this thread: http://www.amigans.net/modules/newbb/ ... t_id=39405#forumpost39405