Basic questions and needed clarifications about AROS

[Raffaele]

Starrfoxx wrote:
I haven't had a chance to dig into AROS yet, so I'm reading what I can about it before testing it out on VMware or a spare HD.

You have no need of it...

There is live CD distro ISO file updating any time...

Simply you download it, burn a CD from the ISO file and autoboot with no problems without harming your system...

http://aros.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/nightly-download?20071009/Binaries/AROS-20071009-i386-pc-boot-iso.zip

And there are also:

Version to be installable (the one that you can use with WMWare

Version which runs hosted into Windows

Version which runs hosted into Linux

(These two acts as a simple emulator like UAE, with the differene that you are not running an emulated AmigaOS, with emulated hardware, but you are running just AROS into a window of Linux or Windows OSs.

Check in the info of the downloads for the version you ask for...

Enjoy AROS

[Raffaele]

McVenco wrote:

Yes. I have tried that a few times already... downloaded the ISO, burned it to CD, and rebooted my pc, but then nothing much happens. The only thing that shows up is a grey (black? don't really remember) screen, sometimes with a mousepointer (which moves - so it DOES do something), and sometimes without the pointer. Am I doing something wrong, or should I wait more than about 5 minutes for something to happen?

No... Too much long time...

You should had seen something like this in a few time:

http://bp2.blogger.com/_rfWbINbeMj0/RwgC0pdO1fI/AAAAAAAAAAk/9A0TcNS2AWk/s1600-h/snapshot23.png

I tried it the first time somewhere last year, and the last ISO that I burned and tried was from some 2 months ago..


Does AROS have known issues with certain Wintel systems? Mine is a Asus A7V333 mobo, with AMD XP 2000+ CPU (256MB Ram).

You could ask it at their forum, register for free and ask them help...

http://aros-exec.org/modules/newbb/index.php


Ciao!