MOS PUP, OS3.9, BVision and Mediator/V3 altogether?
  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Posts: 109 from 2006/9/10
    Hi,

    I have a BPPC 603+ with a fully equipped Mediator 1200 LT4 (Voodoo3, SB16, 100mbit, etc.) which I happily used for OS3.9 for some years now.
    Unfortunately, I never got to install MOS due to the known lack of Mediator-drivers.
    However, I recently managed to get hold of a cheap BVision and would like to give MOS PUP a try now.

    So now to my questions:

    1) Would it be possible to keep both Mediator/V3 *and* BVision in my A1200T,
    a) use the Mediator only for OS3.9 (only installing P96) and
    b) use the BVision only for MOS PUP in some sort of dual-boot setup - or are both cards conflicting with each other?

    2) Is it possible to install MOS on a second SCSI-harddisk and use a bootmanager to select to either boot OS3.9 from the first or MOS from the second HD?

    3) Any advice on which LAN-solution to best use for MOS? Since the Realtek 8139 that I have in my Mediator won't work anymore, what good alternatives are there without a G-Rex? PCMCIA-card? WLAN with Prism2?

    Thanks in advance.
  • »10.09.06 - 17:54
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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Kamul
    Posts: 121 from 2004/6/9
    From: Poland, Katowice
    > Any advice on which LAN-solution to best use for MOS?
    > Since the Realtek 8139 that I have in my Mediator won't
    > work anymore, what good alternatives are there without
    > a G-Rex? PCMCIA-card? WLAN with Prism2?

    PCMICIA cards should work without any problems with drivers
    from Aminet (cnet and 3com also).
  • »10.09.06 - 20:13
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  • MorphOS Developer
    itix
    Posts: 1516 from 2003/2/24
    From: Finland
    Quote:


    2) Is it possible to install MOS on a second SCSI-harddisk and use a bootmanager to select to either boot OS3.9 from the first or MOS from the second HD?



    It is possible. Or even install to the same partition with AmigaOS (but is more complicated).
    1 + 1 = 3 with very large values of 1
  • »10.09.06 - 21:06
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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Posts: 109 from 2006/9/10
    Thanks for the answers so far - quite encouraging! :-)
    I have an old 3com lying around here, so I will use that for the networking to my router.
    If just those 90 degree-PCMCIA adaptors wouldn't be so frigging expensive!

    So there is only question 1) still open... Would I get any problems/conflicts in either OS3.9 or MOS PUP with both Mediator *and* BVision installed at the same time?
    Of course I would only use the Mediator/Voodoo for OS3.9...
    Any conflicts in memory space etc.?

    [ Edited by quadpol on 2006/9/10 22:33 ]
  • »10.09.06 - 21:33
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  • Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Acolyte of the Butterfly
    Kamul
    Posts: 121 from 2004/6/9
    From: Poland, Katowice
    > I have an old 3com lying around here, so I will use that
    > for the networking to my router. If just those 90
    > degree-PCMCIA adaptors wouldn't be so frigging expensive!

    If it would be to expensive (in Poland it does :) ) you can
    allways put your case on a kind of scaffold, cut a slot in
    down part of the case and place PCMCIA direct (without any
    adaptors).
  • »10.09.06 - 21:58
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  • Caterpillar
    Caterpillar
    Slayer
    Posts: 37 from 2003/9/28
    I could be wrong but isn't it more a case of if Miami or whatnot can detect so called hardware then it doesn't matter what you use to connect to the web...

    I run Miami Deluxe under MOS on my 233mhz and never changed any settings used with my AriadneII network card...

    funny, but I registered via this link, the email and key were sent to my main machine (this one, A4000D) and I transferred the key attachment to the A4000T and installed
    it...

    no worries :D

    I use a asdl router with my A4000D my A4000T (both with AriadneII cards installed) and my modded xbox connected...

    hmmm... one more hole for my 360 perhaps... heh
  • »14.09.06 - 05:26
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