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