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System Requirements

For additional information regarding minimum system requirements, please refer to the m68k Homepage section entitled Requirements to run Linux/m68k .

 CPU

Linux can be installed on almost any Amiga (or Atari) having a 68030 or better (68020 only if you also have a 68851 PMMU). You must also have a math-coprocessor (which is built-into 68040 and higher CPU's).

 Memory

Although Linux is not really a memory hog, you should have at least 8-meg of system memory before trying to install Linux.

Disk Controller

Second, you must have a supported disk controller. At this time RedHat m68k Linux supports the following SCSI/IDE disk controllers:

  Commodore A3000 internal.
  Commodore A2091.
  Commodore A4091/A4000T.
  GVP HC8-II series (including G-Force accelerators).
  MacroSystems WarpEngine.
  Phase5 Cyberstorm MkI.
  Phase5 Cyberstorm MkII.
  Phase5 Blizzard 1230IV / 1260.
  Phase5 Blizzard 2040 / 2060.
  Atari Native SCSI.
  A1200 / A4000 native IDE.

Network

Linux was designed with networking in mind. At this time RedHat m68k Linux supports the following network adapters:

  Commodore A2065.
  VillageTronic Ariadne.
  VillageTronic Ariadne-II.
  Hydra.
  A1200 PCMCIA NE2000.
  Atari Lance.
  Atari Bionet-100.
  Atari Pamsnet.

Unsupported Boards

The following is an (incomplete) list of Amiga boards NOT yet supported. Anyone wishing to hack at driver modules is encouraged to do so.

  All Apollo SCSI controllers.
  DKB Wildfire (060, SCSI/Ethernet).
  Phase5 Cyberstorm MkIII (060).
  SquirrelSCSI.

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