Amiga and BSD o/s

From: Dan Linder <dlinder_at_uiuc.edu>
Date: Sun Feb 27 16:28:27 2000

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Gary Hildebrand wrote:

> I'm wanting to try out one (or both) of Open BSD and NetBSD on my lil' ol'
> Amiga -- I really need someone who has gone through the teething process of
> formatting drives and instaling necessary files, etc.

I installed it on my 2000 a few times... just follow the INSTALL
directions. Nothing could be easier. Just pick your partition sizes as
per their directions (pretty on target), label them accordingly in the
Amiga HD Toolbox, and go...

Of course, that was at least a version ago, so... who knows

> Amiga o/s is neat, but Id like to get into something with a more viable
> future.

Heh, I got a PC to run FreeBSD so my amiga could keep running AmigaOS...
But I'm in the school of people who think VAXen should run VMS.

good luck! NetBSD/Amiga is nice... served me well for 4 years of college.


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