Aros/Platforms/x86 installing
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[edit] AROS/x86
[edit] Installation media
The recommended installation media for AROS/x86 (from here in refered to as AROS/i386-pc) is CDROM, since we can fit the whole system onto a single disk (and also all the contributed software). This also makes the installation easier, since you don't have to go through hoops transferring the software on several floppies.
Since nobody currently sells AROS on CDROM (or any other media for that matter), you will need access to a CD burner to create the installation disk yourself. If you don't have access to a CD burner, then unfortunately your only option is to go for the floppies.
[edit] CDROM
[edit] Writing
Simply download the ISO image from the download page and burn it to a CD using your favorite CD burning program.
[edit] Booting
The easiest way to boot from the AROS installation CD is if you have a computer that support booting from CDROM. It might require some fiddling in the BIOS setup to enable booting from CDROM, as it is quite often disabled by default. Simply insert the CD into the first CDROM drive and reboot the computer. The boot is fully automatic, and if everything works you should see a nice screen after a little while.
If your computer does not support booting directly from CDROM you can create a boot floppy and use it in together with the CDROM. Simply insert both the boot floppy and the CD into their respective drives and reboot. AROS will start booting from the floppy, but after the most important things have been loaded (including the CDROM filesystem handler) it will continue booting from the CDROM.
[edit] Floppy
[edit] Writing
To create the boot floppy, you will need to download the disk images from the download page, extract the archive, and write the boot image to a floppy disk. If you are using a UNIX-like operating system (such as Linux or FreeBSD), you can do this with the following command:
> cd AROS-i386-pc
> dd if=aros-boot.img of=/dev/fd0
If you are using Windows, you will need to get rawrite to write the image to a floppy. Please see the documentation of rawrite for information on how to use it.
[edit] Booting
Simply insert the boot floppy into the drive and reboot the computer. The boot is fully automatic, and if everything works you should see a nice screen after a while.
