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6236 | nosferatus | 1 | Minimal system requirements for Kolibri 0.7.x.0: |
2 | * CPU: Pentium, AMD 5x86 or Cyrix 5x86 without MMX with frequency 100 MHz |
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3 | * RAM: 8 Mb |
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4 | * Videocard: supporting VGA (640*480*16 mode) or Vesa |
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5 | * Keyboard: AT |
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6 | * Mouse: COM or PS/2 |
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8 | The system can boot from any of following devices: |
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9 | - Floppy 3.5 |
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10 | - IDE HDD LBA |
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11 | - CD/DVD |
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12 | - USB Flash |
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14 | I. Install to floppy. |
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15 | 1) Insert clean floppy without bad sectors to drive. |
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16 | 2) Write to it kolibri.img image with any available methods: |
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17 | a) (if you have already loaded Kolibri by any method) run the program |
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18 | rdsave and select the variant corresponding to floppy |
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19 | b) (for DOS and Windows) run subjoined install.bat |
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20 | c) with program WinImage or its analogue (e.g. DiskExplorer) |
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21 | d) (for Linux) set "executable" attribute to subjoined script install.sh |
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22 | and run it |
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23 | Now you can boot from floppy (keep it in drive, reboot, set in BIOS option |
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24 | of floppy booting). |
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26 | II. Install to hard disk. |
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27 | There exists several loaders from hard disk. All are oriented on DOS and |
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28 | Windows users. Also standard Linux-loader GRUB can be used. All methods work |
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29 | with file kolibri.img. If you already have old version of Kolibri installed, |
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30 | simply replace kolibri.img to new. If you have booted from LiveCD, which |
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31 | does not contain the file kolibri.img, Kolibri can create it independently, |
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32 | to do this, run the program rdsave, enter the file name for saving and select |
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33 | the corresponding variant. Of course, in this case Kolibri must be able to |
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34 | write to file system of selected partitions, currently this means that |
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35 | only FAT volumes are ok. |
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36 | 1) Most of all features has the loader mtldr (author - Diamond) - works with |
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37 | DOS/Win95/98/NT/2k/XP/Vista, supports FAT32 and NTFS, has installator, can |
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38 | be installed to any folder on disk. |
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39 | To install, simply run file HD_load\mtldr_install.exe and select image file. |
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40 | Apropos, by this way you can install several images. There is also |
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41 | variant of install by hand - for those who want to know what installator |
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42 | does: directions in HD_load\mtldr |
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43 | 2) There is also the loader MeOSLoad (author - Trans, expanded by Mario79) - |
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44 | works with DOS/Win95/98, supports FAT32, it is placed with the instruction |
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45 | to the folder HD_load\MeOSLoad. |
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46 | 3) Moreover, there exist a program which allow load Kolibri directly from |
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47 | Windows 95/98/Me (of course, unloading it) - 9x2klbr (author - Diamond), |
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48 | supports FAT32 and NTFS. |
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49 | 4) Usage of the loader GRUB. The way of using file 'memdisk' to load Kolibri |
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50 | has been described by derPENGUIN on english forum |
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51 | (http://meos32.7.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=110). |
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52 | The suggested method (described by Alver) is based on that description |
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53 | and was checked on grub-0.97-19mdv2007.0. |
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54 | 1. Kolibri can write only on FAT filesystem, so if image file is placed not |
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55 | to FAT volume, the system can not save settings. Therefore if you have |
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56 | FAT32 partition, place 'kolibri.img' there. |
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57 | 2. This method requires the file 'memdisk' from the package 'syslinux' |
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58 | (http://syslinux.zytor.com). You may install the whole package or only |
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59 | extract the mentioned file. Only the file 'memdisk' is needed. (After |
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60 | package install it will be in '/usr/lib/syslinux'). |
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61 | 3. Place the file 'memdisk' to the folder 'boot' or to the partition used |
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62 | for Kolibri. |
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63 | 4. Add to the configuration file 'menu.lst' ('grub.conf') lines as follow: |
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65 | title KolibriOS |
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66 | kernel (hd[Hard disk number],[partition number])[path]/memdisk |
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67 | initrd (hd[Hard disk number],[partition number])[path]/kolibri.img |
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69 | (Remember that numeration of partitions in GRUB starts from 0.) |
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70 | Example: |
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71 | title KolibriOS |
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72 | kernel (hd0,0)/boot/memdisk |
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73 | initrd (hd0,3)/kolibri/kolibri.img |
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75 | The initial variant was: |
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77 | label KolibriOS |
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78 | root (hd[Hard disk number],[partition number]) |
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79 | kernel [path]/memdisk |
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80 | initrd [path]/kolibri.img |
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82 | Here 'memdisk' and 'kolibri.img' must be placed on the same partition. |
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84 | Example: |
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85 | label KolibriOS |
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86 | root (hd0,0) |
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87 | kernel /boot/memdisk |
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88 | initrd /boot/kolibri.img |
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89 | This example is the variant described on english forum, with install to |
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90 | Linux boot partition (of course, without FAT partition). |
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92 | 5) The previous method could not work as is in GRUB2 (tested by Apocalypse_dn), |
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93 | the commands "linux16" and "initrd16" should be used instead of "kernel" |
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94 | and "initrd" (suggested by vkos). |
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96 | III. Install to USB-Flash-drive. |
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97 | The special loader for FAT32-volumes has been written, it and its installer |
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98 | to flash drive can be found in the folder HD_load\USB_Boot. |
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99 | For not-FAT32 drives you may use article placed in the folder |
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100 | HD_load\USB_Boot_old. |
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102 | IV. Install to CD and DVD. |
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103 | There exists special LiveCD-version of Kolibri, which contains |
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104 | in addition to standard things some "heavy" (in Kolibri standards) programs: |
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105 | the ported emulator DosBox, games "Fixed Rate Pig" and "sokoban". |
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106 | You can also create bootable CD or DVD on the base of kolibri.img, adding |
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107 | anything what you want, in the mode of floppy emulation. |
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108 | The appropriate actions are determined by used CD/DVD write program |
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109 | (focus on words such as "boot floppy emulation"). |