Re: APUS Debian Boot-Floppies Images and bugs

[Ken T. <ke...@we...>]

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Alan Buxey wrote:

> can people run this little utilty and give some feedback as to any errors
> it makes/gives?  Its just the beginning of a small tool i knocked up this
> evening....

Hello All,

My results...

Are you installing Debian from this floppy? (Y/N)y
Okay, in this case /dev/ram is used as the root
Do you have a gfx card? (Y/N)y
Okay, what card do you have installed? (choose the number)
1) CVisionPPC/BVisionPPC
2) CVision3D
3) Picasso IV
Choice>2
What resolution do you wish to run in? (choose number)
1) 640x480
2) 800x600
3) 1024x768
 Choice>2
You have the option to turn native (AGA) gfx off...do you want to do this? (Y/N)y
Okay, lets see what you think of this bootstrap:
bootstrap --apus -k vmapus-2.4.4 root=/dev/ram video=cyberfb:mode:800x600-60 video=amifb:off

video=cyberfb:... is for the CV64 card not the CV64/3D,
which should be video=virge:... (not virgefb!)

About the CV64/3d, I have a modified virge driver that supports
initialization and mode changing for 2.2 and 2.4 kernels but didn't ever
commit the changes as I always intended to 'make it better' but never got
round to it, but they work.

The 2.4 version is almost identical to 2.2, only a few name changes. I
also almost have a 2.4 version with modedb support but it has a couple of
problems that I haven't got round to fixing (yet).

Ken.