RedHat 5.1 Linux- Now for your Amiga !!!

[ This package is not officially supported by RedHat, so please do not contact them with questions they cannot answer ]

  This FAQ assumes you have a little knowledge of Amiga and/or Linux software.

Installing any operating system can be a challenging task.
Start down this path only if you feel you are up to it,
and only after you have performed a total backup of your system.

Please send questions and help requests to the m68k usenet (newsgroup) or the RedHat m68k mailing-list as described in the References section at the end of this document.

Although this FAQ is directed toward users of the m68k RedHat Linux package for Amiga, much of the material presented here is applicable to other distributions such as Debian, and to other architectures such as Alpha, Sparc, and x86.

Beginning in March 1998, the top line of each section contains the last date of modification.

1. Introduction
2. CDROM Information
3. System Requirements
4. Typical Disk Requirements
5. Known or Potential Problems
6. Disk Preparation
7. Finding The Files
8. How to create a Supplemental Disk
9. First Install
10. Post-Install Fix-ups
11. About RPM Files
12. Network Configuration
13. Excerpt of m68k kernel-options.txt
14. Adding New Users
15. Modem/ppp Setup
16. Configuring A Kernel
17. Compiling Your Own Kernel
18. How to Cross-compile your kernel
19. Wimping Out On FTP Download
20. Background
21. References
22. Revision History

The files that comprise this document set may be made available online or on CDROM by anyone wishing to do so, this includes freeware, shareware, and commercial distributions. A tarred/gzipped .tgz archive of this document package is available here (use save file mode). Extract this file using the Linux command 'tar -xvzf rh-inst.tgz'. Make sure you download this file in binary mode.

I, and the developers contributing to m68k Linux cannot, and will not be held responsible for the loss of data, profits, or hardware resulting from the ability or inability to use, misuse, or understand this document or any of the software. (I'm glad that’s over)

This document package is designed and tested using Netscape- If it breaks while using uSoft Internet Exploder, well; what do you expect?

If you find this document useful, please send me a short message at [email protected]. I have no other way of knowing whether or not I'm helping or hindering the m68k Linux/Amiga effort.