Amigo-XP Pre-Release Available!

gnashley · 05-09-2005, 09:50 AM

See the amigolinux.org HomePage for details.

cov · 05-10-2005, 01:58 AM

Sorry, Gilbert, I'm looking for a download called Amigo-XP or similar.

I've already downloaded the amigo.2.0.zip but haven't been able to run it under XP.

(I'm sort of writing this nervously, knowing that it's going to make me look awfully stupid....)

Dave Coventry

Grampa · 05-10-2005, 11:35 AM

As I read the website description, the XP version is not available for download (600+ MB), but only via CD or other storage device.

g2jp36695 · 05-10-2005, 12:01 PM

Dave, the 2.0 version will run on an xp box, but you need to boot up into Win98, in command mode. There are plenty of bootdisk images available for this.

But hopefully the details on ordering the amigoXP CD will be complete in a day or two.

Regards,
John

clarification... my pc lacks a floppy, so I used a USB thumb drive to bring it up ... could not figure out how to put a workable bootdisk image onto it, so I put win-98 basics on it.

gnashley · 05-10-2005, 02:21 PM

Amigo-2.0 will run from any IDE hard disk FAT partition, even without windows or DOS installed. It can be booted with a floppy. However, you need SOME sort of 32-bit Windows OS (or Linux) in order to unzip the .zip file. So, if you have WindowsXP on a FAT or you have an XP box with a FAT partition you can unzip Amigo-2.0 there and then create the boot floppy from the download area and boot with that. You can then install lilo to boot either Windows or Amigo if you like.

gnashley · 05-25-2005, 10:03 AM

The first shipment of CD's is going out Friday morning. If you want to get in on the first mailing, be sure and let me know by Thursday.
Gilbert