AROS potential newbie questions

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1. That should work. It's a Grub issue :-)

2. Well, we will be getting FAT32 support soon...

3. It works!!! :-)

4. Um... :-(

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mikeymike wrote:
1 - Grub?

2 - Remind me of the Linux/AROS relationship again...

3a - How about sound support?  SBLive card.

4 - so what do you do then for apps?  Run UAE for AROS?

4a - (UAE for AROS) Does it talk to the filesystem you have in place already?

Grub = Grand Unified Boot Loader... it's the loader we use to boot AROS, I also use it to boot between Linux and Windoze too.

2. Um... Linux is Open source... AROS is open source... AROS can run Hosted in Linux, sort of like Vmware but faster.

3. We have AHI, also a bounty for SB128, and with our new PCI drivers the AHI SBLive! should be easily portable.

4. One can use any AmigaOS app that has been compiled for the x86 CPU :-)

4a. The Plan is to hide UAE in AROS so that you can run your 68k apps without knowing there is UAE there, unless you run a hardware hitting app/game then you will get the gfx output on it's own Intuition screen. Right now, UAE is just UAE :-)

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mikeymike wrote:
2.  Oh ok, I thought the typical config was to piggyback on Linux.

So wrt filesystems, it would probably be easiest to put stuff on CD I want to use in AROS and copy from there?

3.  The SB128 and Live don'thave much in common though do they?

4.  Practically speaking though...?

4a.  but with UAE for AROS, do you have to have your own emulated Amiga setup like I do currently with WinUAE?  If I want to run say IBrowse I'd have to do it like I do on WinUAE?

2. Ahh right, yeah, developers tend to run it piggy backed on Linux so that they can treat it as a virtual machine. I only use the Native version... It's boring messign around with linux :-)
Putting stuff on a CD ROM is the best way to move data at the present time.

3. No they don't. but we will get support for them shortly, I have written a little test tune for AROS when they are working.

4. There is a bunch of AmiNET recompiles that come with the AROS CD-ROM. mostly games and demos.

4a. At the moment UAE works just as it does in Linux, we have a GUI, but AFAIK Adam hasn't conencted yet... In future we want to get UAE running the 68k version AROS, with would allow all system function calls to be passed to the x86 AROS, thus making the emulation invisible.

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mikeymike wrote:
So if I want to do anything more than play around with the OS and UAE, I should wait a while yet?

If you want to do more than that then you should be using WindowsXP, anyway :-D

To be honest, I would say that until we get decent newtork support AROS is not going to be of great use to most people, but I would say the same about all hobby Operating Systems.

I do think you should dowload the CD and run it. you don't have to install it, but I assure you, you will enjoy it :-D

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cecilia wrote:

go ahead and attach a PS2

fortunately i have a adapter.  :-D

not that it's important, but what about being able to use touchpads on laptops (with AROS)? i notice my red hat linux dosen't seem to have support for that. but maybe i didn't try hard to find any.  :-D

No, I've not been able to get the touch pad on my Laptop to work either... not really a problem as I mostly have a mouse plugged in :-)


if the mouse doesn't work for some reason, if you hold down the left amiga key (this might have a strange "Windoze" symble on some keyboard) and press the cursor keys , the pointer will move :-)