AmigaForever-KXLight.md

What is this?

This is because https://www.amigaforever.com/kxlight/resources/ is comming soon for the past 5 years and I am not sure why I gave them money. I have phyiscal roms, and have licenses for all the software, but I still gave Cloanto (stupid name) money.

Amiga Forever introduced KX Light as a lightweight version of its distribution in 2019. KX Light is based on the Knoppix Linux distribution and is designed to provide a user-friendly environment for running Amiga emulation and related applications. It aims to offer a more streamlined experience while still retaining the essential features of the Amiga Forever package.

They just came out with version 11 and they should have gone with a newer emulator or at least updated the hard drive image to have a full tcpip stack and updated software. They still haven't fixed many of the existing problem (like the Amiga Explorer not working because of privleged ports below 1024.) Colanto means LAZY.

Proxmox setup

• Display: Spice
• Drive: No drive on the SCSI add IDE drive
• Sound: Add AC97 Spice
• Network: e1000

Live CD boot options

1. Let it boot from DVD

   • loads Amiga emulation (e-uae) but is read only so all changes are lost and only useful for testing

2. Boot DVD to KX light (Knoppix) command line

   • Upon boot to the DVD press F2 to see a menu or start typing

     af-fbtxt 2

     This will boot the DVD to a command line

3. Install Amiga Forever KX Light to Hard disk

   • On the commandline type: afinstall

     This will run through the installer menus.

4. Once installed reboot.

   • The default kernel line is:

     kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 init=/etc/init nomce screen=800x600 vga=788 splash=silent,theme:af quiet console=tty1
     

5. If you need recovery for your drive:

   • Boot from the DVD and mount the drive with

     af-fbtxt 2
     mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
     cd /mnt/hda1 

6. Booting to the Knoppix command line:

   • at the grub prompt edit the boot line as so:

     kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 init=/etc/init nomce screen=800x600 vga=788 console=tty1 single
     

7. Information on the emulator (e-uae):

   • Super old found here: https://github.com/keirf/e-uae/tree/master

   • Runs from the xinit found /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

   • With command /Amiga/e-uae/kxlight-start.sh

   E-UAE Keyboard shortcuts

   F12 + Q                 Quit UAE
   F12 + R                 Reset UAE (warm reset)
   F12 + Left Shift + R    Reset UAE (cold reset)
   
   

   E-UAE Config Defaults

   unix.rom_path=/Amiga/rom
   unix.floppy_path=
   use_gui=false
   use_debugger=false
   x86.use_tsc=true
   cpu_type=68020/68881
   cpu_speed=max
   cpu_compatable=false
   cpu_cycle_exact=false
   cachesize=16384
   compfpu=true
   chipset=ecs_agnus
   ntsc=false
   immediate_blits=true
   collision_level=none
   kickstart_rom_file=$(FILE_PATH)/amiga-os-3x0-a4000.rom
   kickstart_key_file=$(FILE_PATH)/rom.key
   kickshifter=false
   chipmem_size=4
   bogomem_size=0
   fastmem_size=0