Regarding the need of a CD ROM media for installation, it actually depends on which kernel image you are using. Normal install kernel image will look for removable drives such as CD drives or Internet. But if you use the hdmedia kernel image then you can use a partition of your harddisk to install the files. I never tried hdmedia images on the Amiga, so I don't know if they play nice with FFS or you need ext2/3/4. You should be able to find the hdmedia image in the CD image.

@Carlos, i'll time it from the point where i hit enter the second time to launch amiboot and stop the clock when i get to the bedootstrap screen - but yeah, 7minutes sounds about right. my first learning expirience was "just leave it alone" and dont reboot because you think it's crashed because you've had a blank screen for a little while... :D

it may be a bit of time till i get to play with my A4k, as i've cleared the decks for my rdesktop testing. i need a big desk where i can have a permanent amiga setup... a workbench of some description...

Linux on Amiga was for me much to slow, to be usefull.

but yeah, i hear you Gunnar, this isn't going to be a daily driver by any stretch. already loosing out on USB, faster ethernet, and anything potential on the scsi bus...

then yes, there is the performance aspect. i'm not expecting miracles :D but am curious...

NetBSD actively supports m68k and even fixed some bugs in the latest release:

EXTERNAL LINK 

LOL nice joke

About Linux on the Amiga, I concur it is pure curiosity, and that a Raspberry Pi will run it hundred times faster for a ridiculous price. But for me, it is just the geekness factor of running a current mainstream operating system on the Amiga, pretty much we like running Doom or Quake, or the scene get credit from Linus Torvalds himself: EXTERNAL LINK 
NetBSD is indeed, way better supported on Amiga than Linux, it has Tier II support, that is not bad considering Amiga age; but again, it is pure curiosity.

In any case, the future is AROS; this thread is geekness :)

Update:

Found some nice Warp users to test Deb10 at Discord. They were a bit bitchy I use Vampire, but we came to common understanding. Within 2 months we will have Warped tests of deb9, deb10, accel linux and uclinux.

In the end, I will try uclinux with my linux guru, trying to make some apps leeched from latest Deb10 ext4 m68k image, and IF everything does right we might have some first small v2 and v4 Linux distro.

But I cant really promise it. Just try what is humanly possible.

More in 2 months, just on time for update of FAQ :)
 

yeah yeah, i get it i really do, :) but for this exercise, the V4sa's still missing an mmu, so for running linux, its as like taking a ferrari on a boatinglake? ;)

and even in practical everyday amiga terms, the v4sa isn't really any quicker than a the V1200? sysinfo scores are about the same. i guess the V4 will win out with more LE's and what can be packed inside it with the cyclone5 fpga than the cyclone3 - and i would imagine, the actual "in chip" amiga chipset advantage, plus that 600+MB/s ram would offer. but only "future" games could be programmed to take advantage of that i guess.

i'm actually seeing a break point, where having more CPU just isn't needed for a lot of original classic amiga software unless something like ray tracing or 3D rendering grunt is required...

I have BlizzardPPC board i could press back into service if you'd like me to check anything out PPC wise for this linux thing? i don't have a CyberstormPPC board anymore. that, and the A4000T it lived in were doing duty in the imperial war museum last i heard (about ten years ago).

but the basic crux of the matter here is, and i agree with you here, is that the amiga needs some form of office. i have wordworth office, but i'd imagine it's so hilariously out of date now.

however, i would point out that lots of office apps have a web counterpart, and my company has a myapps portal, where pretty much everything you need to work on a day-to-day basis has a web app, including our VoIP phone system.

so maybe we can work with just having a decent web browser and RDP client for the time being? (maybe a cyclone5 512meg variant of the V1200 too for those HTML5 browser tabs? :D ;)

Open your eyes and stop making a fool out of you.

Its a public bet and YT/Tik Tok challenge :)
 

There is advanced x1000-x5000-Tabor PPC Linux (Phoenix or such) but this APUS kernel is too old to be inserted, and 603/4 is too weak to drive it, that would be like what Gunnar wishes us too
   

I dont promise latest Libre I use on x64 Linux and Office, any Linux Office that can work on ucLinux and v4SA

ah! wrong! about 20 years ago! lol, oh my goodness!

but yeah, i remember getting APUS on my cyberstorm to a shell window, and my next step was to re-compile the kernal to inject the permedia2 driver or something. it was that proper "desk-flip" "what-the-heck-am-i-doing" moment.

i'll have a look at NetBSD at some point - but i'm learning, and having fun with my toys, so it's all good :)

- No Warp drivers
- No Vamp drivers
- Generic AGA RTG drivers killing perforamance
- No real optimized 060 080 MMX kernels
- Limited Amiga support
- MMU dependencies on taking apps out of Deb to ucLinux
- No one has ever tried
- lack of GCC and glibc support for m68k in latest versions
- programistic problem with linux kenrel on amiga hardware
- use it as generic framebuffer with horrible performance
- vox cant code but gladly he has a friend that can
- too slow CPU to run any office according to BigGun