Trying aros on my laptop...

[Heinz]

I want to give a try to aros and have some questions, on the laptop i have windows 7 installed, how can install aros with dual boot with w7?

Laptop have realtek audio and gma 950 graphics card, are audio and graphics compatible with aros?

Thanks.

Like cammy said, you should try an AROS Live CD to see if your Hardware is properly supported. ICAROS or BROADWAY should be fine.

If you want to install AROS on the same Harddrive with windows, you need to make your windows partition smaller. You can then install aros on the free space.

A good tool to edit partitions without erasing them is GPartED LiveCD

But you should make a Backup of your important data anyway.

[Heinz]

I no longer have any PC with an optical drive.  Can I copy the Live CD files to a USB Flash Drive and boot from it?

You can install AROS on a USB Drive just like on a Harddrive, but you first need to boot AROS from a cd to do so.

IIRC Paolo offered pre-installed USB Pens for a while.