I ordered mine direct from Eyetech last march, and recieved it almost
two weeks ago, the day after my money was transferred to Eyetech's
account, so turn around must be pretty quick.
I finally got all the other components together on monday. The A1
board comes with 2 CDs, Debian Linux and the A1 boot install CD. The
Boot CD comes with a complete UAE 3.1 install with licenced Rom,
along with documentation in PDF format. The install guide and jumper
settings are also available as an RTF file, I think there may also be
an HTML version.
Installation is a whizz, as the instruction are clear, and easy to
follow. If you do have any difficulties, there is plenty of help
available from the A1 dev list, which all customers are subscribed to.
The only problems I had, were with an old CD-Rom drive from 1997,
which stopped the Linux install for a while because it didn't work
properly with the new ATA100 cables I got for the A1. This was
remedied by using a newer UDMA CDRW, poached from my A1200.
The other problem was with an ATI Rage Pro (not the recommended
128), which wouldn't let the KDE desktop start for some reason, this
was remedied with a Voodoo 3, I got both cards for free, but intend to
get a Radeon when OS4 is available.
I don't mind sticking with Linux for a while, I still have my A1200,
and getting to know Linux could prove to be useful in the future.
