General questions from a new pegasos2 user
  • Caterpillar
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    cbrxx1100
    Posts: 22 from 2005/3/18
    Hi everyone,

    I am an amiga user and i recently bought a pegasos 2 system, which i also recently upgraded it to 1.4.4. The thing is that i am facing a lot of problems concerning the software and the platform but to strat and have a contact with you guys i have these questions.

    -What is the JIT emulator and where is this programm located how can i activate it?

    -I am facing problems with burnit 2.65. When i 2click on its icon i have on the ambient screen left up the message that it is loading but THEN NOTHING NOT EVEN AN ERROR MESSAGE. Please notice that the MAKECD software is runnig normaly.

    -Another isiu is Herretic ii and freespace installation. The problem is that inspite that i have the latest installer on c: it continous not to find enought free space on my hard drive.

    -About the dvd mplayer how can i add subtitles??

    - My last question is if anyone tryied to install DEBIAN LINUX on his pegasos platform and if he did HOW DID HE MAKE IT?

    tHANKS IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR HELP.

    George :-)
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Zylesea
    Posts: 2057 from 2003/6/4
    Quote:


    cbrxx1100 wrote:
    Hi everyone,

    I am an amiga user and i recently bought a pegasos 2 system,


    Good move!
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    which i also recently upgraded it to 1.4.4. The thing is that i am facing a lot of problems concerning the software and the platform but to strat and have a contact with you guys i have these questions.

    -What is the JIT emulator and where is this programm located how can i activate it?


    It's called Trance, sits in mossys:c/ and it is activated by default.
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    -Another isiu is Herretic ii and freespace installation. The problem is that inspite that i have the latest installer on c: it continous not to find enought free space on my hard drive.

    Use the original Amiga Technoligies Installer from Aminet for installation
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    - My last question is if anyone tryied to install DEBIAN LINUX on his pegasos platform and if he did HOW DID HE MAKE IT?


    It's commonly used. Just go to debian.org and look for it. Genesi is a officila partner of debian.

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    • Paladin of the Pegasos
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      Acill
      Posts: 1926 from 2003/10/19
      From: Port Hueneme, Ca.
      I've never been able to get those games to install and play myself. The hard drive space issue also was a problem for me, but this also is a problem with some install scripts on amiga. Its a large drve issue or something. The installer I use came with the sdk update I think, not sure though. I can install freespace fine now, but it wont run. I would bother anyway. The game is buggy and even more so under MorphOS.

      The linux issue is another matter. I attempted to get Debian to install for months and gave up. I have Gentoo installed now. If you go to the Gentoo site and search fo the ppc install handbook it walks you through the install process. Its a lot better linux too and not its even supported on the PPC live CD.
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    • MorphOS Developer
      itix
      Posts: 1520 from 2003/2/24
      From: Finland
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      -Another isiu is Herretic ii and freespace installation. The problem is that inspite that i have the latest installer on c: it continous not to find enought free space on my hard drive.



      Install to them to a small drive or partition (smaller than 2GB) and then copy directory to final location.

      I.e. RAM DISK is often good candinate.
      1 + 1 = 3 with very large values of 1
    • »08.04.05 - 12:40
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    • Acolyte of the Butterfly
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      BigGun
      Posts: 150 from 2004/6/18
      From: Nagold - Germany
      Installing Debian is a piece of cake.

      The new Debian PPC install CD support Pegasos out of the box.
      Make sure to install either Debian unstable or testing (sarge)
      Do NOT try to install the old stabe (woody) branch!

      Burn your install CD but in into the CD drive and boot the chrp kernel image. As the pegasos is as chrp PPC machine you need to take the chrp linux kernel! The kernel is somewhere under /install/ - I think ... I have no Debian CD to verify this at the moment, sorry.
      You'll need to double check the folder name.
      Look in the install folder for the powerpc chrp kernel.

      Boot it with the following command
      boot cd /install/otherfolder/linuxkernelname

      Now debian will install and recognise all your hardware (gibabit/etc) ...

      A note:
      The pegasos firmware can boot from ext2 and ext3 partitions.
      Make sure to choose for your boot patition one of those formats. (ext3 is a good choice for all partitions)


      Have fun with debian!

      Cheers
      Gunnar

      P.S. I'll search for a CD later to give you the correct folder name
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    • Paladin of the Pegasos
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      Acill
      Posts: 1926 from 2003/10/19
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      A link to the correct CD would help too. I have a 10GB drive in my
      machine not doing much I could put it on now.
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    • »08.04.05 - 17:57
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    • Just looking around
      kmays2000
      Posts: 17 from 2005/3/29
      For Debian 3.0r4-3.1:

      Read these for bugs and other installation notes:
      http://www.nl.debian.org/releases/sarge/
      http://www.nl.debian.org/distrib/
      http://www.nl.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/install

      Go to Freescale.com and read the Debian installation guide for Pegasos systems (AN739).
      http://search.freescale.com/cs.html?url=http%3A//www.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/app_note/AN2739.pdf&qt=pegasos&col=product tspub&n=3

      And for the CDs:
      http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/debian-cd/images/3.0_r4/powerpc/
    • »09.04.05 - 03:10
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    • Just looking around
      kmays2000
      Posts: 17 from 2005/3/29
      Actually, that last post didn;thave the correct links for the Sarge distribution so here it is:
      ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/Release
      ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/
      ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/Contents-powerpc.gz
      ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge-proposed-updates/
      ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge-proposed-updates/Release
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      kmays2000
      Posts: 17 from 2005/3/29
      And here is the correct sarge CD ISOs for you:

      http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/weekly/powerpc/
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    • Caterpillar
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      cbrxx1100
      Posts: 22 from 2005/3/18
      Hi Guys,

      Thanks to your help i have make some progress concerning the debian
      installation, but now i am facing somthing new. after the finsh of the
      installation i am able to boot on debian login under "root" or any
      other user but NOT ON WINDOWS ENVIROMENT! THE BOOT COMES ON A SHELL
      KIND ENVIROMENT.

      AND SOMTHING ELSE CONCERNING MORPHOS: WHEN I TRY TO RUN KNIGHTS AND
      MERCHANTS I GOT THE VIDEOS ON THE START BUT WHEN IT COMES TO RUN THE
      GAME IT FREESES ON A BLANK SCREEN. Please notice that i am under
      morphos 1.4.4

      best regards and thanks again for all your help!!!!!!


      George
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    • Acolyte of the Butterfly
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      BigGun
      Posts: 150 from 2004/6/18
      From: Nagold - Germany
      Hmm, did you install the a graphic environment at all?

      The pure basic debian install of course has no gui.

      Can you run the command "startx" ?
      Running startx from shell is like running "loadwb" on Amiga it will start the Gui


      Cheers
      Gunnar
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    • Acolyte of the Butterfly
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      ossian1961
      Posts: 123 from 2004/7/31
      From: Italy
      @cbrxx1100
      in my first installation try I had the same problem. BigGun says right, you must see "Desktop" in packets list then you must choose it and the X11 ambient with gnome, kde etc. will be installed. ;-)
    • »14.04.05 - 19:06
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