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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    Stevo
    Posts: 888 from 2004/1/24
    From: #AmigaZeux
    Hi again,

    back with another problem, let's see if it is as easy to solve as the last one:

    I tried to get the PegXLin install working. I copied the "pegxlin" and the "install" files to the partition containing the boot.img. Did a reset and...nothing (though i should see a Linux startup). Hmmm, okay, manual then. At the openfirmware prompt I put the command to boot the install from cdrom, and, hey: it worked! But! In the Linux shell I have to make a partition with the following command:

    amiga-fdisk /dev/*your drive*

    Okay, but what is *my drive*? I've come up with hda1, hda2 and hda3 but they all give different read-outs.

    So, anyone knows A) how to get the install via MorphOS working or B) what I should type as *your drive*?

    Again thanx in advance,
    stevo
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  • »25.01.04 - 16:14
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    marcik
    Posts: 268 from 2003/4/12
    From: Kielce/Krakow,...
    hda1, hda2, hda3 - these are partitions on disk hda. Type "amiga-fdisk /dev/hda" - then you should be able to operate on disk hda.
  • »25.01.04 - 16:28
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    marcik
    Posts: 268 from 2003/4/12
    From: Kielce/Krakow,...
    Forgot to mention - be carefull, beacause with programs like this you can easily damage data on your hardisk, so better think twice before saving changes to disk.
  • »25.01.04 - 16:30
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    Stevo
    Posts: 888 from 2004/1/24
    From: #AmigaZeux
    Thanx marcik, but it is still a bit unclear to me what to do. I see that hda is my drive, and that hda1 etc. are my partitions. But what to do next. Like you said: it's easy to damage data already on disk.
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  • »25.01.04 - 16:38
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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
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    nels664868
    Posts: 117 from 2003/12/28
    From: Fort Myers, Fl...
    Hi Stevo

    First, do you have any unused space on the hard drive?
    Second, hda is the first ide harddrive,
    hda1 is the first partition (the MOS boot partition),
    hda2 is the second partition (where all your MOS files are ),
    hda3 you guess it the third partition (don't know if you made this one for linux or MOS)
    Third, if you have unused space try hda4.
    hope this helps
    nels
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  • »25.01.04 - 16:41
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    Stevo
    Posts: 888 from 2004/1/24
    From: #AmigaZeux
    Aha,

    I have indeed made a third partition for Linux, like described in the PegXLin manual for "Installing via MorphOS". So can I skip the "amiga-fdisk..." command and go straight to the "format partition" option in the Linux bootmenu?
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  • »25.01.04 - 16:49
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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
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    nels664868
    Posts: 117 from 2003/12/28
    From: Fort Myers, Fl...
    >I have indeed made a third partition for Linux, like described in the PegXLin manual for "Installing via MorphOS". So can I skip the "amiga-fdisk..." command and go straight to the "format partition" option in the Linux bootmenu?

    Yes.
    BTW did you make a swap partition?
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  • »25.01.04 - 16:58
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    • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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      Stevo
      Posts: 888 from 2004/1/24
      From: #AmigaZeux
      Nah, didn't make a swap partition, since I've got 256 mb ram installed. Should I still make a swap partition? Thanx for solving my prob btw :-)

      Stevo
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    • »25.01.04 - 17:01
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    • Acolyte of the Butterfly
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      nels664868
      Posts: 117 from 2003/12/28
      From: Fort Myers, Fl...
      Quote:


      Stevo wrote:
      Should I still make a swap partition?

      Stevo


      Yes at least 256M
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    • »25.01.04 - 17:23
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    • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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      Stevo
      Posts: 888 from 2004/1/24
      From: #AmigaZeux
      -sigh-

      More questions I'm afraid:

      1. So I go to the menu, choose "partition a drive" and then what? I can only choose /dev/hda, not /dev/hda3. Okay, I choose /dev/hda, then I choose the "default" user option and then? I'm presented with a shell, running a partitioning program, but? No help from the docs (it just says "just partition the drives" :-((.

      So I figured that maybe that partition was already in order (since i've already created the partition in MorphOS, with the custom options and all). I went to the shell, entered "cd bin" and "hdinstall" but alas, the files couldn't be written to disk.

      If someone please could help me get going, thanx.

      Stevo
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    • »25.01.04 - 18:37
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    • Order of the Butterfly
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      marcik
      Posts: 268 from 2003/4/12
      From: Kielce/Krakow,...
      Hmm, can't help. But I think that better place to solve this problem is linux.pegasosppc.com - register there, if you aren't already registred and ask your questions on forum.
    • »25.01.04 - 21:03
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    • Acolyte of the Butterfly
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      nels664868
      Posts: 117 from 2003/12/28
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      Better yet goto http://linux.pegasosppc.com/pegxlin/
      there is full docs on how to install pegxlin.
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    • »25.01.04 - 21:11
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    • Order of the Butterfly
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      Hawk
      Posts: 204 from 2003/12/29
      From: Tokyo - Japan
      The PegXLin doesn't boot on the Pegasos-II, does it? At least, not the one coming with the Superbundle shipped with my Peg-II...

      I am looking forward to the release of linux for Pegasos II !! :-D
      Pegasos II G3@600Mhz (no fan) 512MB RAM (1 slot)
      -- Maxtor 6Y120P0 120GB, 7200 rpm -- ATI Radeon 7500 - (64MB, TV-out)
      -- Minuet Slimline PC case -- MorphOS 1.4.5 + Gentoo
      EFIKA
    • »26.01.04 - 03:29
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    • Yokemate of Keyboards
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      magnetic
      Posts: 2129 from 2003/3/1
      From: Los Angeles
      PegXLin only works with the Pegasos1 ATM. Sven Luther is working on his linux kernel for Peg2 with the Debian Sarge Installer! Should be soon now... he has it running as we speak..

      magnetic
      Pegasos 2 Rev 2B3 w/ Freescale 7447 "G4" @ 1ghz / 1gb Nanya Ram
      Quad Boot: MorphOS 2.7 | Amiga OS4.1 U4 | Ubuntu PPC GNU/Linux | OS X 10.4
    • »26.01.04 - 06:04
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    • Butterfly
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      Maurix
      Posts: 81 from 2004/1/8
      Sorry did you install Linux to a Peg2 ????
    • »26.01.04 - 07:43
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    • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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      Stevo
      Posts: 888 from 2004/1/24
      From: #AmigaZeux
      @nels664868 and marcik,

      Yeah, you're both probably right, but since there are people on Morphzone.org that are using their PegXlin installation, I figured that I must be doing something wrong, probably something really silly, and that a short answer would be enough to solve my problems.

      The installation manual I've got (from the PegXLin cd/superbundle distribution) is totally different from the installation manual that's online at linux.pegasosppc.com though. What to do, what to do, questions, questions :-?
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    • »26.01.04 - 18:42
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    • Order of the Butterfly
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      Sphinx_Ra
      Posts: 276 from 2003/3/15
      From: The Netherlands
      @stevo

      Ga Naar:

      http://www.attention-software.com/pxlmolguide.html :-)
    • »26.01.04 - 19:56
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    • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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      Stevo
      Posts: 888 from 2004/1/24
      From: #AmigaZeux
      Aha,

      looks promising! stay tuned....

      ps.
      lange filename probleem al opgelost? bizar dat dopus4 het ook niet kon renamen.
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    • »26.01.04 - 19:59
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    • Order of the Butterfly
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      Sphinx_Ra
      Posts: 276 from 2003/3/15
      From: The Netherlands
      @Stevo

      Veel Geluk :-)

      Lange File Names zijn gelukkig opgelost met
      1 of andere Aminet tool "MultiRen" :-D
    • »26.01.04 - 20:09
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    • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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      Stevo
      Posts: 888 from 2004/1/24
      From: #AmigaZeux
      Phew!

      @Sphinx_Ra (and others knowing how to solve this one),

      The manual is great; everyting works perfectly (on the pegxlin/linux side) but.....

      I cannot find the vmlinuz-2.4.22 files! The site that is mentioned in the manual (http://people.debian.org/~luther/pegasos/2.4.22/) seems to be down, so what to do next? I searched the internet, found a (seemingly) similar site (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/linux.pegasos/2.4.23/), containing mol.deb files, and vmlinuz-2.4.23 files. I figured that a newer version would be as good as the .22 version, so I installed it. But.....when I tried to boot linux with "boot vmlinuz-2.4.23 etc." instead of using pegxlin, it wouldn't work.

      Well, then I tried to get MOL to work after booting with pegxlin, but when I wanted to install macos (startmol --cdboot) it tells me it can't find a particular MOL file (a "....tun0" file I believe). So...what to do next? Is there another site containing all the files mentioned in the manual/need to run MOL? I found one other site containing 2.4.23 files + mol files (http://www.pegasos.co.nz/linux/) and it does seem to conatin a few extra files. Would these work? This is costing me quite a bit of cd-r's, so knowing that these files will be sufficient (ore knowing what other files should be needed) would be nice ;-)

      Thanx in advance (voor de zoveelste keer),

      Stevo
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    • »30.01.04 - 13:18
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