Re: Commodore A2386 BridgeBoard running NetBSD

["Iggy Drougge" <optimus%canit.se@localhost>]

David Brownlee skrev:

>On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, John Klos wrote:

>> The lack of a display handler on the Amiga side (in NetBSD) is, of course,
>> not a limiting factor, since one can easily administer a NetBSD machine
>> via ethernet. I think that running NetBSD on an 8 meg system requires some
>> patience, though.

>   8mb should be fine with a custom kernel and without X.

NetBSD 1.1 ran fine on my 6MB setup. Without X, of course.

>   Hmm. If you can use the procedure above to boot NetBSD/i386 on
>   the BridgeBoard, and NetBSD/amiga on the host system, are there
>   enough docs to setup at a virtual serial port and network
>   driver between the two - that would enable you to administer the
>   i386 box fully from the amiga, and use it for routing etc :)

There are two different AmigaOS SANA-2 drivers on Aminet which communicate
through Janus to a packet driver running on the bridgeboard, driving an ISA
NIC. A very kludgy way to get ethernet if you're a cheapskate and have a lot
of space left in your Amiga. I think sources are even available in the
archives.
The packages are called respectively Emunet and Etherbridge. There actually
doesn't seem to any source, though, but you could try asking the authors, of
course. =)

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