+ One of the first public demonstrations of the Amiga 3000T running Amiga Unix was at the 1988 Uniforum Conference in Dallas, TX.

+

+

+ For more information, see the <a class="wiki external" href="http://amixbp.sourceforge.net/" rel="external nofollow">project home page</a> on sourceforge.net.<br />

+ # df -k

+ filesystem kbytes used avail capacity mounted on

+ /dev/dsk/c6d0s3 484729 315636 169093 65% /

+ /proc 0 0 0 0% /proc

+ /dev/fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd

+ /dev/dsk/c6d0s6 823205 9 823196 0% /mnt

+ I/O on Amix is relatively slow and uses relatively high amounts of CPU power to do the work. NFS is much slower. An advantage of NFS, though, is you can use RAID-backed storage at the other end. There is no such option for disk-based storage on AMIX.<br />

+ <strong>zoo xpq filename.tar.zoo | gtar -xvC / -f -</strong><br />

+

+ There are a couple of likely suspects as to why this doesn't work. First and foremost is that the packaging system is completely broken after a non-tape installation. The patch disk checks for the status of a couple of packages using the pkginfo -q $PACKAGENAME command. If the package is deemed installed, it returns 0. If not, it returns non-zero (1). There's two solutions to this problem.

+

+ 1) truss output during pkginfo execution shows the only file access after pkginfo is instantiated as /var/sadm/pkg/$PACKAGENAME/pkginfo. This is a short text file containing attributes of the package. Example:

+

+

motoko:/srv/build/bash-4.0# cat /var/sadm/pkg/conf/pkginfo 

+ CLASSES= none

+ OAMBASE=/usr/sadm/sysadm

+ PKG=conf

+ NAME=Kernel configuration package

+ CATEGORY=system

+ ARCH=Amiga

+ PKGINST=conf

+ PKGSAV=/var/sadm/pkg/conf/save

+

+ Placing this directory structure onto the system should make pkginfo return 0.

+

+ 2) The checks for status could be removed. With a non-tape install, everything is installed anyway. All the checks take place in the /var/patch/apply script and can easily be commented out.

+

+ The reason the patch is considered to "fail" is that, although it will install everything else without the kernel patch, some utilities break without the patch. It has been so long since I have had a non-tape system to check, I don't remember all the specifics.

+

+ One possible additional issue is that the kernel config package hasn't been initialized correctly in the non-tape install method. I think this is unlikely, as the installer successfully installs the new kernel...but not impossible. Someone would have to try one of the above fixes. I would do it myself but I only have one A3000 and it's full (Amiga UNIX + OS3.9).

+ Enable: Create an init script in.named, start it at 70. A simple example is attached to this page, place this in /etc/init.d/in.named and set it executable. Enable this at boot with the following:<br /><br /><strong>ln /etc/init.d/in.named /etc/rc2.d/S70in.named</strong><br /><br />Now you can start/stop in.named with <strong>/etc/init.d/in.named start / stop</strong><br />

+ This site is basically an effort to archive as much material about Amiga UNIX as possible in order to keep it from vanishing forever. Mainly, it tries to cater to people who wish to run AMIX for whatever reason on their hardware. By documenting experiences with it, it is hoped that subsequent svr4 junkies will find the way more smooth than it might have been without any guidance at all. For even a relatively experienced modern UNIX or GNU/Linux administrator, System V UNIX is sufficiently different to present difficulty in installation and administration. Not so much in moving around between directories, and using common utilities that persist to this day - although many of those are hoary and somewhat forgetful in their retirement - but of doing more in depth tasks and understanding the differences.<br />

- <strong>You screwed up...how do I tell you?</strong><br />

+ <strong>How did it happen?</strong><br />

- You don't. Sign up for an account, and hit &quot;edit&quot; on the page with the mistake. The markup is fairly easy to read, if you are using AMIX at all and, particularly, you have found an error in something I wrote about AMIX, I am 99.9% certain you can handle a wiki. If not &mdash; remember that <strong>preview</strong> is your friend!<br />

+ TBC<br />

- I know some more/better stuff about so and so...

-

- To add to existing content, just edit the page. Have something that needs an entirely new page? To do that, you create a wiki link to a page that doesn't exist yet, then click the "?" symbol in the preview or saved page. The page will automagically be created for you to edit. Try to make some effort to make your new material be similar in style and presentation to what is already on the site, for the sake of uniformity...but don't worry about it too much. I can edit it just as easy as you can, if I really don't like it.

-

- I need some help with AMIX. Will you help me?

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- Currently, this site is not going to offer that kind of facility. There is already an MSN community (kinda ironic, when you think about it) and a Usenet group that you can find here?. Please do not email me or post comments requesting technical help for AMIX. HOWEVER: if documentation presented on this site is unclear or ambiguous in some way, PLEASE DO ask questions for clarification so we can fix the original document. Also, there is a page for suggested topics to be covered here.

+ So if you have the requisite hardware and you have girded yourself for what is in store for you should you venture into the m68k-cbm-sysv4 <em>dungeon</em>, you might enjoy this site and the dusty treasures it contains. But seriously, if you just want to try UNIX or GNU/Linux out, the most expedient way to do it is on x86 or just something better supported on Amiga hardware. There are <a class="wiki external" href="http://www.debian.org/" rel="external nofollow">lots</a>...<a class="wiki external" href="http://www.ubuntu.com/" rel="external nofollow">of</a>...<a class="wiki external" href="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org" rel="external nofollow">choices</a>...<a class="wiki external" href="http://www.netbsd.org" rel="external nofollow">for</a>...<a class="wiki external" href="http://www.opensolaris.org" rel="external nofollow">you</a>.<br />