WinUAE AOS bootup

[Wraith2021]

Hi,

I have had Amiga Forever 2005 for a few months now, and was wondering if i could create a bootable AOS which is selectable upon my computer booting up?

The OS 3.x that you can select from the CD is good, and I can surf the net and download Amiga content through it, but would it be worth me buying the OS 3.9 CD and trying to install that through an emulated setup?

I know there is a bootable one on the CD, but thats the lynux version thad seems to have a problem recognising my graphics card.

Any help/suggestions whould be greatly appreciated.

Also what would be the best setting for the WinUAE setup, e.g. A4000 8Mb ram etc.

[amigagr]

if i remember right the previus version of amigaforever that i have, has alread some parts of os3.9 include with it and licenced too. personaly i don't like it because it's not a full 3.9 package with uae too. i don't know if in versio 2005 has been improved or not. i wouldn't buy 3.9 just for uae though... it's double cost

[InTheSand]

Hi,

What's the make/model of graphics card in your PC? As far as I know, the Linux-based "bootable Amiga" on the Amiga Forever CD uses a simple frame buffer driver, meaning that it should work with the majority of graphics cards.

 - Ali

[Wraith2021]

Its an XFX Geforece 6800 128MB Graphics card.

[InTheSand]

When you boot from the CD, press F2 when the login prompt appears.

Then enter one of the following:

knoppix vga=normal

or

knoppix xserver=fb800x600


Not sure if these will work for you, but it's worth a try!

 - Ali

[Wraith2021]

ok, got lynux thing to boot, but I prefer the WinUAE interface, its more complete.

Is it worth me shelling out for OS 3.9 and creating a boot file which is designed to run and boot into 3.9 on starup. Freeing may system resorces that XP load up which will not be needed and giving me a more stable workbench environment,

How would I go about doing this?