Install attempts for Aros on 68k

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on: January 19, 2025, 07:28:03 AM

Helo All!

I have a 060 (FPU) card in my Amiga 1200 and would want to install aros.  I took AROS Vision ISO, put on a harddrive, also I took AROS KS replacement and activated it.

I cannot enter early startup on Amiga.  And my AROS is a subsequent partition so I need to change it on boot.

Any simple solutions for that?  I'd appreciate it.

A1200 and a bunch of 8-bit computers


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Reply #1 on: January 19, 2025, 12:13:50 PM
On A1200 AROS 68k Native will run too slow almost unusable.

AROS Vision is lighter (AROS/OS3 mix), by default AROS Vision cannot be started with the Amiga KickStart, but you have to map the 2 AROS ROMs (KickStart), or merge the 2 ROMs to a 1MB ROM.

The 2 ROMs can be found on AROS Vision cpath:
SYS:\boot\amiga

If you want to boot AROS 68k or AROS Vision better do it from WinUAE, where it will be easier and especially faster

There is a way to boot AROS 68k from KickStart Amiga, but you have to follow the procedure used on amiga-m68k-boot-floppy, you can download the ADF file from this link !

https://sourceforge.net/projects/aros/files/nightly2/20250115/Binaries/AROS-20250115-amiga-m68k-boot-floppy.lha/download





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Reply #2 on: January 19, 2025, 01:35:14 PM
On A1200 AROS 68k Native will run too slow almost unusable.

AROS Vision is lighter (AROS/OS3 mix), by default AROS Vision cannot be started with the Amiga KickStart, but you have to map the 2 AROS ROMs (KickStart), or merge the 2 ROMs to a 1MB ROM.

The 2 ROMs can be found on AROS Vision cpath:
SYS:\boot\amiga

If you want to boot AROS 68k or AROS Vision better do it from WinUAE, where it will be easier and especially faster

There is a way to boot AROS 68k from KickStart Amiga, but you have to follow the procedure used on amiga-m68k-boot-floppy, you can download the ADF file from this link !

https://sourceforge.net/projects/aros/files/nightly2/20250115/Binaries/AROS-20250115-amiga-m68k-boot-floppy.lha/download

Thanks for clarification!

So suppose I have a USB drive (8 GB), Amiga Kickstart (3.2.1.).  You say I can prepare an AROS floppy and boot AROS from the FDD on Amiga 1200?

Then, I will do it!

A1200 and a bunch of 8-bit computers


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Reply #3 on: January 19, 2025, 03:35:10 PM
OK but where's aforementioned instructions to be found?

I download most recent AROS Vision, also I have an adf image of the diskette.

And most of all, can I (how?) boot AROS from USB on my A1200 with WARP card?

A1200 and a bunch of 8-bit computers


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Reply #4 on: January 19, 2025, 04:35:18 PM
Can the A1200 USB Port Boot?

If it can Boot, you have to install AROS on the Pendrive (SFS Filesystem), you just have to Copy the system, you can use WinUAE for that.

With an AROS 68k system you should have no problem booting it, AROS Vision I don't know if it's related to volume name or device name, talk to the developer of AROS Vision, he usually hangs out on this site Aros (Open a discussion):

https://www.arosworld.org