Trying aros on my laptop...

[AmigaEd]

I thought that Icaros was available in three flavors?

I see the Desktop Live and Desktop Light versions, but what happened to the VMware version?

Has this been phased out for some reason? I really like the idea of just being able to load it right up in Virtualbox, try it out and all without having to create partitions, mess with Grub or install anything.

[AmigaEd]

Perhaps a Copy2RAM option could be added to the grub menu like on some Linux distros?

Yeah, I like this idea. I've been working quite a bit with this with rather large WinXP disk images (i.e. > 2GB) . Loading the images into ram with Grub is pretty painfully slow, but once the image has been loaded into RAM, the boot up time is only a fraction of what it takes to boot a hard disk based WinXP system. I'm talking like 20 seconds vs. 2.5 minutes.

I've just started playing with Icaros in Virtualbox and it was easy to get it going. (Tried Broadway, but couldn't seem to get networking working. I'll have to look into that some more.) I bet the Icaros light package would load pretty nicely into RAM and run. Maybe I'll take a crack at it.

Regards,
AmigaEd