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Title: AROS port up-to-date on Sam440
Post by: Elwood on April 14, 2010, 09:26:10 PM

Dear Amigans,

We are happy to announce the AROS port on Sam440 is now fully up-to-date, and will stay updated.

From now on, AROS updates are usable immediately on Sam440 through the nightly builds available on AROS website.

Get your ISO and use AROS now:
http://aros.sourceforge.net/download.php#nightly-builds (http://aros.sourceforge.net/download.php#nightly-builds)

Title: Re: AROS port up-to-date on Sam440
Post by: klx300r on April 15, 2010, 02:02:57 AM

awesome news!!! looking forward to triple booting OS4.1/Debian and now AROS on my Sam...great fun indeed :-)

Title: Re: AROS port up-to-date on Sam440
Post by: redrumloa on April 15, 2010, 02:32:42 AM

Pretty cool for Sam owners :-)

Title: Re: AROS port up-to-date on Sam440
Post by: fishy_fiz on April 15, 2010, 05:46:32 AM

Very cool :-)  It does make me wonder though, what if a customer wants a Sam to use use as a ppc linux and/or AROS machine rather than OS4.x?  Is it possible to buy the boards without OS4.x ? I'd like to be able to test software ports Ive done for ppc AROS,... cross compiling isnt a problem, but it's not much fun relying on other people to test your software for you.

Title: Re: AROS port up-to-date on Sam440
Post by: Crumb on April 16, 2010, 10:25:14 AM

@fishy_fiz

You could try a Mac Mini G4 running hosted version (but don't use YDL as it crawls)

Title: Re: AROS port up-to-date on Sam440
Post by: antikk on April 17, 2010, 02:43:17 PM

But what sw works for the ppc version?

Title: Re: AROS port up-to-date on Sam440
Post by: klx300r on April 17, 2010, 06:51:28 PM

@ Elwood

The boot up cd load up nicely but my mouse movement is dead slow maiing the system unuseable ??

few questions:

1- can I boot up AROS with the new slbv2 that came with Update 1
2- what files system should I use to format my AROS partition? it currently has SFS/02 on it

Title: Re: AROS port up-to-date on Sam440
Post by: prowler on April 19, 2010, 12:55:14 PM

I had a quick go of the live CD. From what I could see,  my mouse didn't work at all. I haven't had the chance to stuff around with it enough to see if I can get the mouse to work or not yet.

Title: Re: AROS port up-to-date on Sam440
Post by: klx300r on April 19, 2010, 02:46:24 PM

Quote from: prowler;554387

I had a quick go of the live CD. From what I could see,  my mouse didn't work at all. I haven't had the chance to stuff around with it enough to see if I can get the mouse to work or not yet.

my mouse is working fine now with the first boot option on the CD....if i try loading up the AltUSB option then I have the mouse issue.
At the moment, I'm trying to install and boot up AROS from a USB stick....i get to the point where the installer sees my USB drive but it keeps telling me to reboot??

Title: Re: AROS port up-to-date on Sam440
Post by: dammy on April 19, 2010, 02:56:40 PM

Quote from: prowler;554387

I had a quick go of the live CD. From what I could see,  my mouse didn't work at all. I haven't had the chance to stuff around with it enough to see if I can get the mouse to work or not yet.

Sounds like a Posiedon issue.

Title: Re: AROS port up-to-date on Sam440
Post by: Elwood on April 19, 2010, 08:35:50 PM

> 1- can I boot up AROS with the new slbv2 that came with Update 1

No, you need to install Parthenope on the disk RDB.

> 2- what files system should I use to format my AROS partition? it currently has SFS/02 on it

SFS0, as SFS2 is OS4 only.