AROS-Max-0.2.2 (Stable) is now online

[bloodline]

Couldnt get it to boot on my laptopn, think beacuse it was looking for a floppy that wasnt ther

I had a similar problem with on of my machines, I just switched the Floppy drive on in the BIOS (even though there was no actual floppy drive attached) and AROS booted just fine.

[rayt]

I don't know if its a bug, but it seems that my mouse (logitech ps2) doesn't work. Everything boots fine and the keyboard also works, but I can't move the pointer.

[TheMagicM]

what was changed from the previous to this release?

[rayt]

oh sorry, I just saw that its in fact a serial mouse. I gues then aros has (like amithlon I think) no support for serial mice?

[4pLaY]

Thats correct rayt! no serial mice support! and with all the more important things we need to add support for serial mice isnt very high im afraid.

[jj]

Im a bit busy, so havnt got time to register and stuff to post on the aros max forum, prehaps someone here can help

I have a dell  cpx 500mnhz pentium 3 256mb ram,ati laptop jobby.  When I try booting aros max in normal mode, it goes so far, then i get loads of warning messages about wander, non dos disk, in the boot shell window, and then everything stops

if i use failsafe  mode, i get the pointer a red pointer on black screen, floppy drive klicks for ever and no more booting

any ideas anyone

[Holley]

New features in version 0.2.0 include install scripts, graphical grub bootloader, improved sound support for play, lbreakout, lmarbles, circus, a redesigned contrib directory and a working version of summvm!

Download file size is also much smaller than before, without sacrificing features, so be sure to try it out :-)

Non-booting can often be fixed by choosing 'e' at the grub screen and adding the -nofdc switch to the startup line, or switching off the DMA (also at the grub command line).  Unfortunately some chipsets just won't work right, like some i810 machines only show 4 colours and will only boot from floppy.

If something appears to not work, it often needs to be run, or started from a script, on the command line - we don't have IconX functionality yet!

Thanks for the feedback everyone :-)

[Holley]

Oh yeah, and please keep a bookmark of www.AROS-Max.co.uk rather than the long URL posted by Dammy, just in case we move in the future ;-)

[Argo]

"2 more weeks" (tm) for the TCP/IP though

Cool, but what network software is there to run one there is network connectivity thru a TCP/IP stack?

P.S. Tis the Season. Donate to Bounties...

[Holley]

Mozaic works ok already ;-)

[Damion]

Works great here, impressive. Multitasks nicely and is very responsive.

[dammy]

Amosiac is working and a small web server so far.  Will be interesting to see how long a AROS webserver can stay up under normal loads.  As far as other network software, should be a healthy number of apps being ported the day tcp/ip is fully implimented in AROS.

Dammy

[DFergATL]

Having fun to the MAX!!

Ok, bad joke.

I am looking for information..

I have been able to create a single partiton on a drvie using HDtoolbox.  I wan't to be able to create 2 partiotions for use in AROS.  How do I do that?

[Merc]

Anyone else get it to the point where it shows the mouse pointer and then have it just hang, accessing the cd drive every couple of seconds and clicking the floppy?  
I had the same thing happen when I tried the regular AROS CD a few months ago  :-(

[Holley]

On some systems, when booting from CD, it seems to have problems accessing more than the CD buffer at a time, meaning it is booting, just veeeeeery slowly.

It's worth trying the 'failsafe' boot mode, if that works try removing DMA from the preferred grub boot line by pressing 'e' and removing the relevant switch.

[Argo]

Yes, on all the computers I have. Though only one has a PS/2 mouse. The only computer that I've got it to work on is my mother's old Compaq laptop. Now just to get it out of her sight.
It doesn't seem like it likes my Matrox G550.