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AROS Installation Kit 
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v. 0.2

     
What is this Kit ?
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This kit is a set of virtual disks for different PC Virtualizers.
It allows you to make a simple install from any fresh AROS Live CD,
whether you`ll need it. Also it`s small and easy to download and use.
Installing AROS flavour meant to be i386-native. 

Following virtual disks available:

	+QEMU (QCOW format)
	+Bochs 2.3
	+VmWare v.4
	+VmWare v.5+
	+Parallels Workstation 2 (not yet)
	+MS VirtualPC 2004 (not yet)


These virtual HDD images with pre-setup partitions are ready for
AROS install. 
Format used is compressed hd image format. Internal HD size
is 500MB, each file isn`t greater than xxkB  (as it contains no files yet). 
500 MB must be enough for such installation. 
Please ensure that you have enough space on your harddrive, as image will grow.

Requirements
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To install AROS you will need this images set, Virtualiser
(your preferred one) and AROS Live CD.

If you`re in trouble which virtualizer to choose, you can always begin with
QEMU, which is free and open source. Larger version of a pack can contain some
version of it (included is windows version 0.7.2, not newest, but stable and 
smaller). You can get it here:

    +Linux users: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/download.html 
    +Windows users will  like this page: http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/  
     and also cute GUI called QEMU Manager that lets you easily use QEMU 
     http://www.davereyn.co.uk/

In case if other virtualizer is used, follow it`s manuals. All you need
is to make standard PC-equivalent and add supplied virtual disk to it.
Latter instructons are given for QEMU.

AROS live CD (assumed you need probably test mostly nightly builds). 
You can get this live CD here:  http://aros.sourceforge.net/downloads/nightly/   look for smth like
Look for file like AROS-2006xxxx-i386-pc-boot-iso.tar.bz2 there.


Installation
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Preparing

After you get it all, unpack it (for example, with 7Zip (www.7-zip.org):
Unpack images set and put selected VM image to any dir dedicated for AROS VM.
Install (if there isn`t already) chosen Virtualizer.
For QEMU it`s recommended to unpack it to the same dir (if you do use linux, 
install it to the system).       
Unpack aros.iso from .tar.bz2 package to your dedicated AROS dir (where the 
disk image was unpacked).


	Then follow this steps:


	1.Create scripts (arosCD.bat and arosHD.bat for Windows) like
this: (With QEMU Manager you will not these)

     arosCD.bat 
     ========== 
     
qemu -L . -hda aros.dsk -cdrom aros.iso -boot d -m 64 -enable-audio -localtime

     arosHD.bat 
     ========== 

qemu -L . -hda aros.dsk -boot c -m 64 -enable-audio -localtime     

     
      
Note that -m 64 sets amount of MB of RAM available to AROS. 
If you choose to use QEMU Manager, just create one virtual machine
and pick options

     2.Then run arosCD.bat and wait for CD grub boot message. Select
comfortable 16-bit resolution (32 bits crashes on my qemu).  Do not pick it too
much, or it will get harder to access offscreen parts. Note that qemu runs in
window (switching to fullscreen can easily crash it).

     3.After AROS has booted up, go to AROS LIVE CD:Tools and run InstallAROS
program. On welcome screen push proceed  button. On license check Accept license
button and again press  proceed. Then choose install  options: only Install AROS
core System, Install Extra Software and Show bootloader Options must be checked.
Then, click proceed.

     4.Then you must choose where to install AROS. remove all the checboxes and
click proceed. Check  if GRUB bootloader  options is correct  and click proceed.
Then click proceed again on the warn  script. Install starts to copy files. Wait
till it end, and install  of bootscript will begin. But  - after this AROS isn`t
ready yet. Close Installer for now.

     5. Close QEMU window  and start arosCD.bat again.  Yes, we gonna boot  this
way again. After AROS boots, repeat steps  3-4, but remove all the checkmarks on
Install options  page but  show bootloader  options. Then  repeat install. While
installing bootloader it will  ask to rewrite  files - answer yes  as many as it
will be needed. Now, close Installer again. After this AROS must be ready. Close
the QEMU window.

     6. Time has  come to start  arosHD.bat. (or to unselect booting from CD).
     Choose your resolution  and let it boot. If there`s a GRUB errors you must  
repeat instal at least from point 5. If AROS is booted, just start to use it ;) 
Now you can change and save the prefs.

	Keen, AROS Team
	09/2006
     


TODO: More images, Networking Guide
