Re: Acron A5000

2003-03-31 Thread Richard Hector
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 03:24:32AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 09:11:09AM +, Paul Grenyer wrote: Anyway, can someone tell me if I can install Debian on my Acron A5000, please? Only if you can answer me

Acron A5000

2003-03-28 Thread Paul Grenyer
Hi All I'm new to this list and I am hoping someone can answer a quick straight forward question for me. I have looked on the website and did try the archives, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do a global search...? Anyway, can someone tell me if I can install Debian on my Acron A5000

Re: Acron A5000

2003-03-28 Thread Hugh Saunders
...? groups.google.com :) Anyway, can someone tell me if I can install Debian on my Acron A5000, is that a persistent mis-spelling? do you mean acorn A5000? http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/status is a good place to start, mentions A5000 as not yet but soon:) maybe able to use my a3000 in a while then!! hugh

Re: Acron A5000

2003-03-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 09:11:09AM +, Paul Grenyer wrote: Anyway, can someone tell me if I can install Debian on my Acron A5000, please? Only if you can answer me this: Does your current OS install on my Yoyodyne 75/20A4500 Mark II? 8:o

Re: Acron A5000

2003-03-28 Thread Paul Grenyer
Hi (snip) This kind of information should be enough for most hardware people to give you a ballpark figure on whether or not things will work. Be prepared to break the motherboard description down to chipsets if it's an obscure one that nobody here has heard of or tried. I hope this is

Re: Acron A5000

2003-03-28 Thread cr
On Friday 28 March 2003 23:24, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 09:11:09AM +, Paul Grenyer wrote: Anyway, can someone tell me if I can install Debian on my Acron A5000, please? Only if you can answer me this: Does your current OS install on my Yoyodyne 75/20A4500 Mark II

Re: Acron A5000

2003-03-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:51:56AM +, Paul Grenyer wrote: Ok. Fair comment. I think I've had my answer, however here are the details: Operating System RISC-OS 3 Timeline Released: September 1991 CPU type ARM3 CPU word length 32 bits

Re: Acron A5000

2003-03-28 Thread Paul Grenyer
...? groups.google.com :) Thanks. I read someone elses post stating Google is your friend. I tried debian+A5000 and found the page you mention below. Anyway, can someone tell me if I can install Debian on my Acron A5000, is that a persistent mis-spelling? do you mean acorn A5000? http

Re: Acron A5000

2003-03-28 Thread Paul Grenyer
Hi I've heard of Debian running on similar hardware. Give the ARM port a try. I don't have any ARM hardware so I haven't tried it myself, but I'm reasonably sure it should run. Back up what you have first in case it doesn't. According to the ARM part of the debian website (That someone

Re: Acron A5000

2003-03-28 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 01:54:47PM +, Paul Grenyer wrote: As for backing up first. I thought you migth be interested to know that Risc OS is entirely ROM based and can run with or without a hard disk. So other than personal files (of which I don't have any :-) ) there is nothing to back

Re: Acron A5000

2003-03-28 Thread Andrew Ingram
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 15:25, Hugh Saunders wrote: which is why riscOS is so flippin quick and my a3000 boots quicker than a 1.1ghz pentium :) Exactly! I love Acorn machines and I don't think I would have gone into IT without the exposure to them that I had at a young age. I still own a BBC B,

Re: Acron A5000

2003-03-28 Thread Paul Grenyer
Hi Exactly! I love Acorn machines and I don't think I would have gone into IT without the exposure to them that I had at a young age. I still own a BBC B, A3000, A5000 and RiscPC (with 200Mhz StrongARM and RiscOS 3.5). The RiscPC was an awesome creation with it's dual processors (and one of

Re: Acron A5000

2003-03-28 Thread cr
On Saturday 29 March 2003 01:54, Paul Grenyer wrote: As for backing up first. I thought you migth be interested to know that Risc OS is entirely ROM based and can run with or without a hard disk. In 2 MB of ROM, IIRC, and in that you get a complete full-featured GUI and command line OS, with