Installing AROS (x86) to HD?

[cgutjahr]

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.

[cgutjahr]

@Ogun:

Did you download the floppy version or the CDRom version? I want to know simply so I can write a small document on how to do this.

The floppy version.

Will be a new experience for me as well, even though I am one of the people responsible for ide.device and trackdisk.device

;-)

@bloodline:

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

Yes, that was me. Thanks again.

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.

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?

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.

I would need a nit of patience for that ;-)