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Minimal system requirements for KolibriOS:

* CPU: Pentium, AMD 5x86 or Cyrix 5x86 without MMX with frequency 100 MHz

* RAM: 8 Mb

* Videocard: supporting VGA (640*480*16 mode) or Vesa

* Keyboard: AT

* Mouse: COM, PS/2 or USB

The system can boot from any of following devices:

- Floppy 3.5

- IDE HDD LBA

- CD/DVD

- USB Flash

I. Install to floppy.

  1) Insert clean floppy without bad sectors to drive.

  2) Write to it kolibri.img image with any available methods:

    a) (if you have already loaded Kolibri by any method) run the program

       rdsave and select the variant corresponding to floppy

    b) (for DOS and Windows) run subjoined install.bat

    c) with program WinImage or its analogue (e.g. DiskExplorer)

    d) (for Linux) set "executable" attribute to subjoined script install.sh

       and run it

Now you can boot from floppy (keep it in drive, reboot, set in BIOS option

of floppy booting).

II. Install to hard disk.

There exists several loaders from hard disk. All are oriented on DOS and

Windows users. Also standard Linux-loader GRUB can be used. All methods work

with file kolibri.img. If you already have old version of Kolibri installed,

simply replace kolibri.img to new. If you have booted from LiveCD, which

does not contain the file kolibri.img, Kolibri can create it independently,

to do this, run the program rdsave, enter the file name for saving and select

the corresponding variant. Of course, in this case Kolibri must be able to

write to file system of selected partitions, currently this means that

only FAT volumes are ok.

1) Most of all features has the loader mtldr (author - Diamond) - works with

   DOS/Win95/98/NT/2k/XP/Vista, supports FAT32 and NTFS, has installator, can

   be installed to any folder on disk.

   To install, simply run file HD_load\mtldr_install.exe and select image file.

   Apropos, by this way you can install several images. There is also

   variant of install by hand - for those who want to know what installator

   does: directions in HD_load\mtldr

2) There is also the loader MeOSLoad (author - Trans, expanded by Mario79) -

   works with DOS/Win95/98, supports FAT32, it is placed with the instruction

   to the folder HD_load\MeOSLoad.

3) Moreover, there exist a program which allow load Kolibri directly from

   Windows 95/98/Me (of course, unloading it) - 9x2klbr (author - Diamond),

   supports FAT32 and NTFS.

4) Usage of the loader GRUB. Place the file 'memdisk' to the folder 'boot'

   or to the partition used for Kolibri.

   a) For GRUB2, in the folder /etc/grub.d add to one of files next lines:

menuentry 'KolibriOS' {

      linux16 (hd[Hard disk number],[partition number])[path]/memdisk

      initrd16 (hd[Hard disk number],[partition number])[path]/kolibri.img

      }

      example:

menuentry 'KolibriOS' {

      linux16 (hd0,msdos1)/boot/memdisk

      initrd16 (hd0,msdos1)/boot/kolibri.img

      }

      then, run in terminal 'sudo update-grub'.

   b) For old GRUB, add to the configuration file 'menu.lst' next lines:

      title KolibriOS

      kernel (hd[Hard disk number],[partition number])[path]/memdisk

      initrd (hd[Hard disk number],[partition number])[path]/kolibri.img

      Remember that numeration in GRUB starts from 0. Example:

      title KolibriOS

      kernel (hd0,0)/boot/memdisk

      initrd (hd0,3)/kolibri/kolibri.img

III. Install to USB-Flash-drive.

The special loader for FAT32-volumes has been written, it and its installer

to flash drive can be found in the folder HD_load\USB_Boot.

For not-FAT32 drives you may use article placed in the folder

HD_load\USB_Boot_old.

IV. Install to CD and DVD.

There exists special LiveCD-version of Kolibri, which contains

in addition to standard things some "heavy" (in Kolibri standards) programs:

the ported emulator DosBox, games "Fixed Rate Pig" and "sokoban".

You can also create bootable CD or DVD on the base of kolibri.img, adding

anything what you want, in the mode of floppy emulation.

The appropriate actions are determined by used CD/DVD write program

(focus on words such as "boot floppy emulation").