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| 2788 | clevermous | 1 | BOOT_F32.BIN - bootsector for FAT32; |
| 2 | MTLD_F32 - auxiliary loader file; |
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| 3 | inst.exe - installer for WinNT+; |
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| 4 | setmbr.exe - installs standard MBR (read below); |
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| 5 | readme.txt - this file. |
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| 7 | To install, flash with FAT32 file system, with free space available for |
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| 8 | file kolibri.img and a couple of Kb for loader, is required. |
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| 10 | Installation for WinNT+ users: |
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| 11 | Run inst.exe, it will display a list of connected flash drives. Select |
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| 12 | the drive, on which you want to install, and double-click on it. |
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| 13 | The program will report success or fail (cannot read/write to drive or |
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| 14 | drive is not FAT32-volume). |
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| 15 | Copy to the flash the file kolibri.img with wanted distribution kit version. |
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| 16 | (These two actions can be done in any order.) |
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| 17 | Now you can boot from this flash drive. |
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| 19 | I have encountered situation, when (recently released) flash does not boot |
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| 20 | and displays message "Pen drive Without Operating System.Remove |
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| 21 | Pen Drive And Reboot." If instead of booting you see the same or like message, |
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| 22 | probably setmbr.exe can help. It must be runned with administrator rights. |
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| 23 | After loading in the appeared list double-click on the drive corresponding to |
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| 24 | your flash drive. Program will report success or fail. |
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| 26 | Installation for users of other operating systems: |
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| 27 | automatic - not supported yet. If you can work with disk editor, the following |
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| 28 | information may help you: inst.exe does following: |
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| 29 | - reads bootsector, checks that it specifies FAT32; |
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| 30 | - copies to the flash the file MTLD_F32, at the same time sets attributes |
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| 31 | "hidden","system","read-only" (they do not play any role for the loader itself, |
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| 32 | they protect the file from unnecessary curiosity); |
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| 33 | - reads the file BOOT_F32.BIN; in its data replaces volume parameters |
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| 34 | from offset 3 to offset 0x5A (0x57 bytes) to parameters taken from current |
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| 35 | bootsector; |
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| 36 | - writes obtained data back to flash bootsector, and also in backup copy of |
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| 37 | bootsector, if it is present (the 2-byte field on offset 0x32) |
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| 38 | (backup copy indeed is not required to be modified, in real life it is not |
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| 39 | used). |
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| 41 | Under Linux a new bootsector can be installed to the drive /dev/sdb1 (replace |
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| 42 | with a name of FAT32-volume of any device you want) with the sequence of |
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| 43 | two following commands: |
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| 44 | dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=BOOT_F32.BIN bs=1 skip=3 seek=3 count=87 conv=notrunc |
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| 45 | dd if=BOOT_F32.BIN of=/dev/sdb1 bs=512 count=1 conv=notrunc |
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| 46 | Files mtld_f32 and kolibri.img must be copied as usual. |