AROS potential newbie questions

[mikeymike]

1 - Soon I'm going to be putting a new, big fat disk in my PC, and I'm thinking about allocating some space for a future install of an alternative OS.  I'd like to try out AROS.

The setup of the disk would look something like:

first partition, bootable: NTFS, 2GB

(partition in between for alternative OS)

data partition, NTFS, rest of space on disk

Could I boot into AROS if it were the second partition on the disk?  (I don't mind changing the active partition using a partitioning util every time I want to boot whichever isn't the current active one)  How large should the second partition be?

2 - can I have a read-only NTFS driver running to be able to read at least the NTFS data partition?

3 - state of graphics driver - GF4 Ti4200?

4 - apps support under AROS?

I'll probably make the alternative OS partition 10GB in size so that I could use it for say FreeBSD in the future.

I don't want to have a second disk in the same machine due really to sound, heat and expense problems.  I'll be using the current disk in another machine anyway.

[mikeymike]

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?

[mikeymike]

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?

[mikeymike]

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

[mikeymike]

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

Any particular version/nightly/whatever?  A direct URL would be nice :-)

[mikeymike]

Oooh.  Pretty.  :-)

[mikeymike]

It only supports one pointing device at a time though.  My trackball is connected to PS2 (works as a standard mouse), and my gaming mouse connected to serial.  Only the mouse worked.  Though (just to keep things clear) it didn't require me to unplug the trackball or anything.