MorphOS 2.0 Released

[zylesea]

@ Darrin

The time-out is 30 min. It's enough to get a good impression. Since the rebbot time is quite fast it is okay to get first impressions of the system and play a bit around. But still it is annoying enough to make you either register soon, or give up.
Btw.: It works cool on my Efika.  

[zylesea]

DamageX wrote:
Posting this from the MorphOS 2 demo I just installed on my Efika.

I have a Radeon 9200 AGP. It bumps into the wires coming out of the ATX power connector. Oh well.

I used a Transcend 4GB USB flash drive to hold the boot image and the downloaded ISO.

A couple hints:
1) when typing the boot command at the smartfirmware prompt, the image filename is case sensitive (being a Windows user, I'm not used to that B.S.)
2) you can't install MorphOS onto a FAT partition (it won't work worth crap). Change the harddisk from MBR to RDB and use FFS (probably some other stups work too but that is what I'm using)

This seems like a nice system after all, too bad there's no sound yet.

Please *don't* use FFS. best choice is SFS. Only on Peg1 FFS is required for teh partition that holds the boot.img, since the Peg1's firmware cannot access SFS partitions. the firmware of the Peg2 & the Efika can, thus avoid FFS - it is not safe and also slow.

A good decision might be to create a really small partition (a few MBs) and put there the boot.img seperately. This partition *must not* be maked as bootable and does not need to be automounted by MorphOS. Thus you cannot delete the boot.img by mistake from MorphOS (the drive is not mounted). IMO the most clean way to maintain your system.