MorphOS 2.0 Released

[Jakodemus]

You guys are whining about few bucks. Usually Europeans have to pay much more than the Americans. Lets compare Mac Pro prices. For Europeans standard Mac Pro cost 2.048,36 EUR ex VAT and if VAT is included the price jumps to 2.499,00 EUR. Americans only have to pay 1.779,80 EUR ($2.799). At the time when euro was weaker than the dollar I could somehow understand this, but now one euro is almost 1.60 dollars!

[DamageX]

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.

[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.

[adolescent]

Jakodemus wrote:
You guys are whining about few bucks. Usually Europeans have to pay much more than the Americans. Lets compare Mac Pro prices. For Europeans standard Mac Pro cost 2.048,36 EUR ex VAT and if VAT is included the price jumps to 2.499,00 EUR. Americans only have to pay 1.779,80 EUR ($2.799). At the time when euro was weaker than the dollar I could somehow understand this, but now one euro is almost 1.60 dollars!

Apple is a US company, so tariffs are applied when selling products in the EU.  Add to that the cost of doing business in the EU (as a foriegn company) and there is your markup.  

Now, why not just buy from the US and pay your local import tax/dutys?  Surely it's not 500 EUR to ship and import a computer?  

[Zetec-S]

Well I've gone and done it and ordered an Open Client Efika from Genesi this evening.  Should have it within the week!!

Haven't used an Amiga based system on a regular basis for at least 8 years now, so looking forward to it. Hopefully installation of Morph OS 2.0 won't be too hard for a non-techy like me.  Just getting it to have a play around really and dust off some of my old Amiga software.

Anybody want to buy my SX-32 Pro to finance this?