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AROS USER MANUAL - 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS WELCOME...........................................................................................................5 DOCUMENTATION CONVENTIONS ............................................................................5 OTHER USEFUL OR REFERENCE DOCUMENTATION........................................................6 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................. 7 WHAT‘S AROS?..................................................................................................7 GOALS ...............................................................................................................7 HISTORY ............................................................................................................7 REQUIREMENTS ...................................................................................................8 WARNING.........................................................................................................10 CHAPTER 1: AROS BASICS........................................................... 11 AROS ZUNE GUI BASICS ...................................................................................11 AROS BASIC HANDLING .....................................................................................15 Booting / Rebooting..........................................................................................15 Wandering around ............................................................................................16 CHAPTER 2: FILE MANAGEMENT ................................................. 18 DISK DEVICES...................................................................................................18 PATHS............................................................................................................19 FILES AND DRAWER......................................................................................19 FILE SYSTEMS ...................................................................................................20 ORGANIZING YOUR DATA.....................................................................................20 PREPARING A VOLUME........................................................................................20 Creating a drawer.............................................................................................21 Deleting files/drawers........................................................................................22 CHAPTER 3: AROS PROGRAMS .................................................... 25 AROS SYSTEM PROGRAMS ..................................................................................25 TOOLS DRAWER.................................................................................................26 Commodities.....................................................................................................27 DEVS AND STORAGE.......................................................................................28 Datatypes.........................................................................................................29 Dosdrivers........................................................................................................29 Drivers.............................................................................................................29 Keymaps..........................................................................................................30 MIDI ................................................................................................................30 Networks..........................................................................................................30 Printers............................................................................................................30 SYSTEM DIRECTORY ...........................................................................................31 UTILITIES DRAWER............................................................................................33 Clock................................................................................................................33 Installer............................................................................................................33 More................................................................................................................33 Multiview..........................................................................................................34 Snoopy.............................................................................................................34 WBSTARTUP DRAWER........................................................................................34 Tool types........................................................................................................34 CHAPTER 4: CUSTOMISING AROS............................................... 36 SETTING THE TIME AND DATE..............................................................................36 SETTING UP THE LOCALE.....................................................................................37 SETTING UP THE INPUT .......................................................................................38 4 - AROS USER MANUAL SETTING WANDERER LOOK AND USE.....................................................................38 Icontrol............................................................................................................ 39 Wanderer......................................................................................................... 39 FONT............................................................................................................... 41 Reqtools prefs.................................................................................................. 41 SETTING UP THE SOUND.....................................................................................42 SETTING UP INPUT/OUTPUT DEVICES ...................................................................42 Trackdisk prefs................................................................................................. 42 Serial Prefs....................................................................................................... 43 CHAPTER 5: EXTRA APPLICATIONS............................................. 44 APPENDIX I œ FONT SUPPORT..................................................... 51 Bitmap fonts..................................................................................................... 51 Free-type fonts................................................................................................. 51 APPENDIX II œ BOOT OPTIONS ................................................... 53 GRUB SUPPORT ........................................................................ 53 HOW DOES IT WORK?.........................................................................................53 AROS Specific GRUB support ............................................................................. 54 APPENDIX IV œ TROUBLE SHOOTING.......................................... 55 KNOWN PROBLEMATIC AND HARDWARE, OR THE