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Minimal system requirements for Kolibri 0.7.x.0:
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* CPU: Pentium, AMD 5x86 or Cyrix 5x86 without MMX with frequency 100 MHz
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* RAM: 8 Mb
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* Videocard: supporting VGA (640*480*16 mode) or Vesa
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* Keyboard: AT
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* Mouse: COM or PS/2
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The system can boot from any of following devices:
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- Floppy 3.5
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- IDE HDD LBA
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- CD/DVD
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- USB Flash
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I. Install to floppy.
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  1) Insert clean floppy without bad sectors to drive.
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  2) Write to it kolibri.img image with any available methods:
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    a) (if you have already loaded Kolibri by any method) run the program
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       rdsave and select the variant corresponding to floppy
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    b) (for DOS and Windows) run subjoined install.bat
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    c) with program WinImage or its analogue (e.g. DiskExplorer)
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    d) (for Linux) set "executable" attribute to subjoined script install.sh
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       and run it
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Now you can boot from floppy (keep it in drive, reboot, set in BIOS option
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of floppy booting).
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II. Install to hard disk.
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There exists several loaders from hard disk. All are oriented on DOS and
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Windows users. Also standard Linux-loader GRUB can be used. All methods work
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with file kolibri.img. If you already have old version of Kolibri installed,
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simply replace kolibri.img to new. If you have booted from LiveCD, which
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does not contain the file kolibri.img, Kolibri can create it independently,
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to do this, run the program rdsave, enter the file name for saving and select
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the corresponding variant. Of course, in this case Kolibri must be able to
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write to file system of selected partitions, currently this means that
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only FAT volumes are ok.
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1) Most of all features has the loader mtldr (author - Diamond) - works with
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   DOS/Win95/98/NT/2k/XP/Vista, supports FAT32 and NTFS, has installator, can
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   be installed to any folder on disk.
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   To install, simply run file HD_load\mtldr_install.exe and select image file.
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   Apropos, by this way you can install several images. There is also
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   variant of install by hand - for those who want to know what installator
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   does: directions in HD_load\mtldr
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2) There is also the loader MeOSLoad (author - Trans, expanded by Mario79) -
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   works with DOS/Win95/98, supports FAT32, it is placed with the instruction
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   to the folder HD_load\MeOSLoad.
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3) Moreover, there exist a program which allow load Kolibri directly from
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   Windows 95/98/Me (of course, unloading it) - 9x2klbr (author - Diamond),
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   supports FAT32 and NTFS.
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4) Usage of the loader GRUB. The way of using file 'memdisk' to load Kolibri
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   has been described by derPENGUIN on english forum
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   (http://meos32.7.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=110).
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   The suggested method (described by Alver) is based on that description
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   and was checked on grub-0.97-19mdv2007.0.
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   1. Kolibri can write only on FAT filesystem, so if image file is placed not
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      to FAT volume, the system can not save settings. Therefore if you have
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      FAT32 partition, place 'kolibri.img' there.
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   2. This method requires the file 'memdisk' from the package 'syslinux'
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      (http://syslinux.zytor.com). You may install the whole package or only
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      extract the mentioned file. Only the file 'memdisk' is needed. (After
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      package install it will be in '/usr/lib/syslinux').
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   3. Place the file 'memdisk' to the folder 'boot' or to the partition used
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      for Kolibri.
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   4. Add to the configuration file 'menu.lst' ('grub.conf') lines as follow:
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      title KolibriOS
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      kernel (hd[Hard disk number],[partition number])[path]/memdisk
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      initrd (hd[Hard disk number],[partition number])[path]/kolibri.img
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      (Remember that numeration of partitions in GRUB starts from 0.)
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      Example:
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      title KolibriOS
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      kernel (hd0,0)/boot/memdisk
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      initrd (hd0,3)/kolibri/kolibri.img
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      The initial variant was:
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      label KolibriOS
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      root (hd[Hard disk number],[partition number])
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      kernel [path]/memdisk
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      initrd [path]/kolibri.img
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      Here 'memdisk' and 'kolibri.img' must be placed on the same partition.
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      Example:
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      label KolibriOS
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      root (hd0,0)
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      kernel /boot/memdisk
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      initrd /boot/kolibri.img
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      This example is the variant described on english forum, with install to
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      Linux boot partition (of course, without FAT partition).
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5) The previous method could not work as is in GRUB2 (tested by Apocalypse_dn),
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   the commands "linux16" and "initrd16" should be used instead of "kernel"
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   and "initrd" (suggested by vkos).
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III. Install to USB-Flash-drive.
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The special loader for FAT32-volumes has been written, it and its installer
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to flash drive can be found in the folder HD_load\USB_Boot.
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For not-FAT32 drives you may use article placed in the folder
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HD_load\USB_Boot_old.
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IV. Install to CD and DVD.
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There exists special LiveCD-version of Kolibri, which contains
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in addition to standard things some "heavy" (in Kolibri standards) programs:
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the ported emulator DosBox, games "Fixed Rate Pig" and "sokoban".
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You can also create bootable CD or DVD on the base of kolibri.img, adding
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anything what you want, in the mode of floppy emulation.
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The appropriate actions are determined by used CD/DVD write program
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(focus on words such as "boot floppy emulation").