Install: Z3660 SD card

A3000, A4000 or A4000T, Z3660 with a real 68060 or 68LC060. The card holds the firmware, the presets and four disk images: a ready-installed desktop and two installers.

You need

the K1 card files;
a microSD card, 2 GB or larger;
the Kickstart 3.x ROM image for your machine (A3000 or A4000), 524288 bytes, from your own ROMs.

1. Make the card

MBR (not GPT), two partitions. The firmware finds them by number.

#	Type	Start, size	Format	Contents
1	`0x0C`	sector 2048, 1 GiB	FAT32, 4 KiB clusters	`fat/`
2	`0x07`	the rest	exFAT, 128 KiB clusters	`exfat/`

On Linux, with the card at /dev/sdX:

printf 'label: dos start=2048, size=2097152, type=c type=7 ' | sudo sfdisk /dev/sdX sudo mkfs.vfat -F 32 -s 8 /dev/sdX1 sudo mkfs.exfat -c 128K /dev/sdX2

Unpack amigaux-1.0-k1-card.zip. Copy its fat/ to partition 1 and exfat/ to partition 2, then check them against MANIFEST.sha256.

2. Kickstart

Copy your ROM image to kicks/kickstart.rom on the exFAT partition. Exactly that name; nothing else to edit.

Known-good image (zlib CRC32): A4kOS323.rom B6A4698E (A4000). A3000: Kickstart 3.2.1 (47.102) boots in emulation.

3. Two or more Z3660s on one network

Every card has mac_address 02:00:00:00:00:01 in z3660cfg.txt. Give each card its own: 02:00:00:00:00:02, …:03. Digits only; the firmware misreads A–F.

4. Pick a preset

Preset	Boots	Use
0	`k1-desktop-rtg` at unit 0	ready-made desktop (default)
1	`k1-install` → `k1-blank200`	interactive install
2	`k1-unatt` → `k1-blank200`	unattended install
3	`k1-blank200` at unit 0	the system you installed
4–7	the CD route	Install from CD

To choose: on a PC, edit presets/preset.txt. Its one line is preset 0; make it preset 1, 2 or 3.

5a. Ready-made desktop

Preset 0. It goes straight to the first-boot dialog.

5b. Interactive install

Preset 1. The installer runs from unit 6 and installs onto the blank disk at unit 0.

Wait for each question to appear before you type; keys pressed while the system is still starting are lost.

Prompt	Answer
`Which keyboard are you using? [12]`	`RETURN` (American), or your map's number
`Do you want to install or repair? [install]`	`RETURN`
`What is the SCSI id of the disk you want to install?`	0 — asked only when more than one disk can take it
`How many megabytes for the root file system? [158]`	`RETURN`
`How many megabytes for the swap partition? [30]`	`RETURN`
`Choose: [1]`	`RETURN` (Standard Amiga UNIX installation); 2 everything on the disc
`Verbose install? [n]`	`RETURN`
`Do you wish to change any of these? [n]`	`RETURN` — check `Install to: SCSI id 0` first
`Press RETURN to halt the system.`	`RETURN`

SCSI id 6 … source -- not installable in the disk table is the installer itself.

Wait 10 seconds after the halt message and switch off. Set preset 3, or leave preset 1: the installed disk boots before the installer.

5c. Unattended install

Preset 2. No questions; it refuses a disk that is not blank. It halts by itself. Wait 10 seconds, switch off. Set preset 3, or leave preset 2: the installed disk boots before the installer.

6. First boot

The installed system asks its questions once: first-boot dialog. Then log in as root with the password you gave it. The first boot takes a few minutes longer.

If it goes wrong

Black screen or no disk activity: switch off for 20 seconds, then on.
AmigaOS starts instead: hold both mouse buttons at power-on, Boot Options, UNIX_Boot.
Black on every power-on: check kicks/kickstart.rom.
Back to stock firmware: delete Z3660.bin on the FAT partition. Full stock: copy FAILSAFE.bin over BOOT.BIN, then delete Z3660.bin.

Switching off: as root, shutdown -i0 -g0 -y, then wait 10 seconds after the halt message. Never reboot or shutdown -i6 on a real 68060: the Z3660 cannot reset the CPU.

Stuck? Report it in jusii/amigaux; see Support.

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