New AROS distribution

[paolone]

Starting with the new version 0.7, published today, VmwAROS has turned into a complete AROS distribution. From now on, it will be available in two flavours, pre-installed in a virtual machine as usual, and live-CD.

Users of VmwAROS LIVE! will be able to boot their computers straight into a enhanced AROS environment, with DHCP network support and preliminary web browser. A complete list of nwe features is available at the site http://vmwaros.blogspot.com/2008/04/vmwaros-beta-07-and-live-07-released.html.

VmwAROS VM beta 0.7 can be downloaded from:
http://vmwaros.blogspot.com/2008/04/vmwaros-is-complete-aros-desktop.html

VmwAROS LIVE! 0.7 can be downloaded from:
http://vmwaros.blogspot.com/2008/04/blog-post.html

Please check your hardware for AROS compatibility before trying to install VmwAROS LIVE!.

[Phantom]

Just great! Thanks for the new version. 8-)

[Colani1200]

Great work, this distribution is really awesome! I recommend everybody with a spare box to try it out.

I just installed it natively from the live CD on one of my machines and it really starts to feel like a new Amiga, especially running Dopus. :-o

It doesn't seem to like my graphics hardware though (NVIDIA TNT2). When I switch to a higher resolution, it crashes after a short time. Maybe I'll try another card...

[bloodline]

Good good!!! :-D

[Merc]

Wow, this is pretty nice!  For some reason though it seems to not respond to mouseclicks once in a while.. anyone else getting that?  I'm running it through MS Virtual Pc...

[paolone]

@Colani: I think it would crash also with more powerful video cards. Nvidia and ATI drivers need a code refresh, but no one has the time to do this... In the meanwhile, select a VESA mode. It's also more compatible with games and emulators in the distro.

@Merc: that's a VPC issue. VPC IMHO is the worst virtual machine ever, please use VMware server (that's equally free) to get rid of any emulation problem. VmwAROS runs fine on it, with network too.

[Colani1200]

OK, thanks for the hint. I'll give VESA a try tonight.

[Effy]

Link to the blog does not seem to work ...

[Colani1200]

OK, just tried VESA and it seems to run far more stable. However, I wanted to modify the default option in the grub bootloader to suit my needs and both Janoeditor and VIM crash my box. Any chance to debug this? Are there any other text editors included?

EDIT: Typo fixed.

[Mazze]

Sorry for being off topic. There exists Nanoeditor for AROS? Where can I download it?

[Mazze]

> Link to the blog does not seem to work ...

Just remove the dot at the end of the URL.

[Colani1200]

Ooops, typo. I meant Janoeditor of course.

OK, some more test results:

I swapped the graphics card for a different brand NVIDIA TNT2 card and it works fine with the NVIDIA driver. Even Quake and Doom work at good speed, and I am running this on a junk 500 MHz AMD K6-2 box! VICE works at 100% as well. What is most annoying at the moment (besides the lack of a working text editor) is that I don't have network. Although I built in a Realtek 8029, which "should work" according to the AROS wikibook I get errors like "message too long" when I try to ping something. No audio either, but the card I have seems to be unsupported anyway. Got to dive the basement again.  :-D
Ah, and another problem: floppy doesn't work either. During the boot process I get a message like "[floppy] disabled with bootloader argument".  This and the lack of network leaves me with little possibilities to transfer data to the box. Any ideas welcome.

[Heinz]

This and the lack of network leaves me with little possibilities to transfer data to the box. Any ideas welcome.

You could transfer files via a nullmodem cable using  a Terminal Program like Hyperterminal on Windows Side and Term (Extras/Aminet).

See this german thread on Amiganews.de

[Colani1200]

OK, thanks for that. But in the long term, I'd rather get the components to work that are not functioning at the moment.

[zevs789]

Use the good old edit. edit sys:boot/grub/menu.ist and delete the lines you dont need.