03 Installation

Installing AMIX

Follow the procedure on the Amiga Unix Wiki: https://amigaunix.com/doku.php/installation. This page records the emulator-specific parts only.

SCSI IDs are hard-coded

The installer expects tape at SCSI ID 4 and disk at SCSI ID 6. These are not configurable.

Attaching the tape

FS-UAE has no GUI option for a SCSI tape. It needs a raw pass-through line:

uae_uaehf0 = tape0,ro,:/path/to/tape_21,0,0,0,512,0,,scsi4,SCSI1

FS-UAE renumbers it internally so it does not collide with the hardfile. Confirm from the log:

Adding A3000 mainboard SCSI TAPE unit 4 ('.../tape_21')
TAPEEMU INDEX: '.../tape_21/index.tape'

The disk

A 600 MB hardfile at SCSI 6, hard_drive_0_type = rdb. The installer creates the RDB itself, writing RDSK at block 2 with three partitions:

Partition	DosType	Becomes
UNIX_Root	UNI\1	/dev/dsk/c6d0s1, mounted /
UNIX_Swap	resv	swap
UNIX_Boot	UNI\0	boot

Slice numbers follow position in the partition chain.

During the install

Set warp mode expectations first: ⌘W and ⌘Q are macOS window/quit commands and will kill the emulator mid-install. FS-UAE documents Mod+W as warp mode and Mod is Cmd on macOS, but macOS wins. Rebinding via keyboard_key_f10 and keyboard_key_w_ctrl was tried and neither took effect — the keystrokes pass through to AMIX. Unresolved.

Take a snapshot as soon as the install finishes.