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  1. Minimal system requirements for KolibriOS:
  2. * CPU: Pentium, AMD 5x86 or Cyrix 5x86 without MMX with frequency 100 MHz
  3. * RAM: 8 Mb
  4. * Videocard: supporting VGA (640*480*16 mode) or Vesa
  5. * Keyboard: AT
  6. * Mouse: COM, PS/2 or USB
  7.  
  8. The system can boot from any of following devices:
  9. - Floppy 3.5
  10. - IDE HDD LBA
  11. - CD/DVD
  12. - USB Flash
  13.  
  14. I. Install to floppy.
  15.   1) Insert clean floppy without bad sectors to drive.
  16.   2) Write to it kolibri.img image with any available methods:
  17.     a) (if you have already loaded Kolibri by any method) run the program
  18.        rdsave and select the variant corresponding to floppy
  19.     b) (for DOS and Windows) run subjoined install.bat
  20.     c) with program WinImage or its analogue (e.g. DiskExplorer)
  21.     d) (for Linux) set "executable" attribute to subjoined script install.sh
  22.        and run it
  23. Now you can boot from floppy (keep it in drive, reboot, set in BIOS option
  24. of floppy booting).
  25.  
  26. II. Install to hard disk.
  27. There exists several loaders from hard disk. All are oriented on DOS and
  28. Windows users. Also standard Linux-loader GRUB can be used. All methods work
  29. with file kolibri.img. If you already have old version of Kolibri installed,
  30. simply replace kolibri.img to new. If you have booted from LiveCD, which
  31. does not contain the file kolibri.img, Kolibri can create it independently,
  32. to do this, run the program rdsave, enter the file name for saving and select
  33. the corresponding variant. Of course, in this case Kolibri must be able to
  34. write to file system of selected partitions, currently this means that
  35. only FAT volumes are ok.
  36. 1) Most of all features has the loader mtldr (author - Diamond) - works with
  37.    DOS/Win95/98/NT/2k/XP/Vista, supports FAT32 and NTFS, has installator, can
  38.    be installed to any folder on disk.
  39.    To install, simply run file HD_load\mtldr_install.exe and select image file.
  40.    Apropos, by this way you can install several images. There is also
  41.    variant of install by hand - for those who want to know what installator
  42.    does: directions in HD_load\mtldr
  43. 2) There is also the loader MeOSLoad (author - Trans, expanded by Mario79) -
  44.    works with DOS/Win95/98, supports FAT32, it is placed with the instruction
  45.    to the folder HD_load\MeOSLoad.
  46. 3) Moreover, there exist a program which allow load Kolibri directly from
  47.    Windows 95/98/Me (of course, unloading it) - 9x2klbr (author - Diamond),
  48.    supports FAT32 and NTFS.
  49. 4) Usage of the loader GRUB. Place the file 'memdisk' to the folder 'boot'
  50.    or to the partition used for Kolibri.
  51.    a) For GRUB2, in the folder /etc/grub.d add to one of files next lines:
  52.  
  53. menuentry 'KolibriOS' {
  54.       linux16 (hd[Hard disk number],[partition number])[path]/memdisk
  55.       initrd16 (hd[Hard disk number],[partition number])[path]/kolibri.img
  56.       }
  57.  
  58.       example:
  59.  
  60. menuentry 'KolibriOS' {
  61.       linux16 (hd0,msdos1)/boot/memdisk
  62.       initrd16 (hd0,msdos1)/boot/kolibri.img
  63.       }
  64.  
  65.       then, run in terminal 'sudo update-grub'.
  66.  
  67.    b) For old GRUB, add to the configuration file 'menu.lst' next lines:
  68.  
  69.       title KolibriOS
  70.       kernel (hd[Hard disk number],[partition number])[path]/memdisk
  71.       initrd (hd[Hard disk number],[partition number])[path]/kolibri.img
  72.  
  73.       Remember that numeration in GRUB starts from 0. Example:
  74.  
  75.       title KolibriOS
  76.       kernel (hd0,0)/boot/memdisk
  77.       initrd (hd0,3)/kolibri/kolibri.img
  78.  
  79. III. Install to USB-Flash-drive.
  80. The special loader for FAT32-volumes has been written, it and its installer
  81. to flash drive can be found in the folder HD_load\USB_Boot.
  82. For not-FAT32 drives you may use article placed in the folder
  83. HD_load\USB_Boot_old.
  84.  
  85. IV. Install to CD and DVD.
  86. There exists special LiveCD-version of Kolibri, which contains
  87. in addition to standard things some "heavy" (in Kolibri standards) programs:
  88. the ported emulator DosBox, games "Fixed Rate Pig" and "sokoban".
  89. You can also create bootable CD or DVD on the base of kolibri.img, adding
  90. anything what you want, in the mode of floppy emulation.
  91. The appropriate actions are determined by used CD/DVD write program
  92. (focus on words such as "boot floppy emulation").
  93.