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« on: November 18, 2010, 02:09:41 PM »
Okay, please excuse my stupidity, but I gotta ask.

Is Icaros a standalone OS?

I was tinkering with it last night and was trying to install it on a new hard drive on a spare laptop I've got and I can't seem to figure out how to get it to install.

I built the Live disk and it runs fine on my Windows Vista (yeah, yeah, I know!) as a task, but I can't seem to get the danged disk to boot on the laptop.

Help would be appreciated.

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Re: Icaros
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2010, 02:14:31 PM »
It sure is a standalone OS!

You should just put the Live CD (which you burn from the .iso file) into the drive and start the machine (you might have to set your BIOS so that the CD is the boot device)... Then the grub boot menu will appear... AROS will boot and the installer is in there.
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Re: Icaros
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2010, 02:28:35 PM »
Quote from: curtis;592784
Okay, please excuse my stupidity, but I gotta ask.

Is Icaros a standalone OS?

I was tinkering with it last night and was trying to install it on a new hard drive on a spare laptop I've got and I can't seem to figure out how to get it to install.

I built the Live disk and it runs fine on my Windows Vista (yeah, yeah, I know!) as a task, but I can't seem to get the danged disk to boot on the laptop.

Help would be appreciated.

Curtis


A little more info would help... is it booting past grub?   if So are you getting the no bootable media error?   This is normally fixed on newer machines by changing sata mode to either legacy or ide.
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Re: Icaros
« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2010, 02:31:25 PM »
Hmm, curioser and curioser.

I know the drive works because I booted a Ubuntu install disk with no problems.

However, the .iso file I burned gives me a invalid boot disk.  May have to download again and give it another shot.

Thanks for the comeback BL.
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Re: Icaros
« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2010, 02:35:56 PM »
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Hmm, curioser and curioser.

I know the drive works because I booted a Ubuntu install disk with no problems.

However, the .iso file I burned gives me a invalid boot disk.  May have to download again and give it another shot.

Thanks for the comeback BL.
I seem to recal the icaros iso is actually a DVD... Am I right? So you need a DVD-R or DVD+R or a DVD+-RW depending on your burner an boot drive... The DVD spec is a mess :(
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Re: Icaros
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2010, 04:07:23 PM »
I knew that, but it suddenly occurred to me, the drive on the laptop is just a CD.

CRAP!   Talk about a rookie mistake.  Maybe I should turn my A+ certification in humiliation.

Ah well, guess I'll have to some fancy footwork with partitioning and install from a partition.  That or spend some more bucks to find a DVD for this old Armada E500.

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I seem to recal the icaros iso is actually a DVD... Am I right? So you need a DVD-R or DVD+R or a DVD+-RW depending on your burner an boot drive... The DVD spec is a mess :(
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Re: Icaros
« Reply #6 on: November 18, 2010, 04:09:18 PM »
Nah, just use the CD iso, either nightly or ask the Icaros maintaer nicely x
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Re: Icaros
« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2010, 04:11:49 PM »
Or use a USB stick?
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Re: Icaros
« Reply #8 on: November 18, 2010, 04:14:34 PM »
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I knew that, but it suddenly occurred to me, the drive on the laptop is just a CD.

CRAP!   Talk about a rookie mistake.  Maybe I should turn my A+ certification in humiliation.

Ah well, guess I'll have to some fancy footwork with partitioning and install from a partition.  That or spend some more bucks to find a DVD for this old Armada E500.

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If the laptop can be booted off a USB, that is one option. Other option is go with a wild and woolly AROS nightly: http://aros.sourceforge.net/download.php#nightly-builds since that is small enough for a CD.
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Re: Icaros
« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2010, 05:37:37 PM »
Quote from: curtis;592822


Ah well, guess I'll have to some fancy footwork with partitioning and install from a partition.  That or spend some more bucks to find a DVD for this old Armada E500.

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You dont need to spend any money here.

Just Dowload Icaros Light and burn it onto a cd-r

This is a stripped version of Icaros. Just a few apps missing.
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Re: Icaros
« Reply #10 on: November 18, 2010, 06:51:45 PM »
Again, may I suggest people wait for Icaros 1.2.5 which is only a few days away.

It will be vastly superior and 1.2.4 did have a few installation issues.
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Re: Icaros
« Reply #11 on: November 19, 2010, 01:50:15 PM »
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Again, may I suggest people wait for Icaros 1.2.5 which is only a few days away.

It will be vastly superior and 1.2.4 did have a few installation issues.


Now that I've got 1.2.4 Light downloaded and was getting ready to party this weekend!

Oh well, may try 1.2.4 and see how it goes.

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Re: Icaros
« Reply #12 on: November 19, 2010, 02:50:17 PM »
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Again, may I suggest people wait for Icaros 1.2.5 which is only a few days away.

It will be vastly superior and 1.2.4 did have a few installation issues.


Yeah just a few!!! ;-) I posted in your thread about Ion installs for your Ion boot settings (noDMA etc) but got no response. That might be due to Aros-exec's notifications being non-functional!
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Re: Icaros
« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2010, 06:46:08 AM »
I just tried to use 1.2.5 but it doesn't work with my mouse or keyboard.
1.2.4 wouldn't even start on my machine because it didn't like my GF9500GT, so I guess this is an improvement.
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Re: Icaros
« Reply #14 on: December 09, 2010, 01:11:25 PM »
Do you guys know if there is any kind of HCL for AROS?. I've got several machines/laptops/parts lying around here to build a dedicated box. It would save some guess work.
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