Installing AROS (x86) to HD?

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cgutjahr wrote:
I recently got a very old laptop (486DX@100) and tried to boot Matt Parsons' AROS distribution, which worked fine.

Now I'd like to install AROS to the HD, but there's absolutely no documentation available. I know how to handle FDISK, and I'm an expert with HDToolbox.

Would be cool if somebody could give me a basic step by step guide to installing AROS to HD.

Also, does anybody know if there's any traffic on the AROS users mailing list? They don't have public archives.

Thanks in advance.

Did you send me an Email about that laptop? I assume my advice got it working then, that 's good.

I have installed AROS onto a Hard disk, you need to use HDToolBox in AROS not Fdisk. As Johan has already said there are a few problem with the ide.device at the moment, I found it was better to create the disk using a real Amiga and then plug it into an PC and boot AROS, then copy the CD to the Hard drive.
Run "install-pc386" (or some such name, but it doesn't seem to work at this time anyway) and the disk is bootable.

Wait until Johan has been able to spend a bit more time on this area.

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Huh? How's that supposed to work? I want to boot from the HD, my Laptop's BIOS certainly doesn't know how to handle RDB disks, therefore I assumed that I had to prepare the HD with FDisk and install some sort of Bootmanager which loads the kernel?

Sebastian has been really clever and managed to get the PC to Boot RDB disks. You have to use his special install program in the C dir. Which puts Grub
(our boot loader) at the begining of the drive.

I'm sure he will explain how it works if you Email him.

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jdiffend wrote:
I think it might be a good idea to include the install docs with the next distos.

As I've clearly written on my site, I don't plan to release any info about HD installing until I can be confident that it works well enough.
By that time I hope to have an automatic installer program ready.