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| Minimal system requirements for Kolibri 0.7.x.0: |
| * 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 or PS/2 |
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| 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. The way of using file 'memdisk' to load Kolibri |
| has been described by derPENGUIN on english forum |
| (http://meos32.7.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=110). |
| The suggested method (described by Alver) is based on that description |
| and was checked on grub-0.97-19mdv2007.0. |
| 1. Kolibri can write only on FAT filesystem, so if image file is placed not |
| to FAT volume, the system can not save settings. Therefore if you have |
| FAT32 partition, place 'kolibri.img' there. |
| 2. This method requires the file 'memdisk' from the package 'syslinux' |
| (http://syslinux.zytor.com). You may install the whole package or only |
| extract the mentioned file. Only the file 'memdisk' is needed. (After |
| package install it will be in '/usr/lib/syslinux'). |
| 3. Place the file 'memdisk' to the folder 'boot' or to the partition used |
| for Kolibri. |
| 4. Add to the configuration file 'menu.lst' ('grub.conf') lines as follow: |
| |
| title KolibriOS |
| kernel (hd[Hard disk number],[partition number])[path]/memdisk |
| initrd (hd[Hard disk number],[partition number])[path]/kolibri.img |
| |
| (Remember that numeration of partitions in GRUB starts from 0.) |
| Example: |
| title KolibriOS |
| kernel (hd0,0)/boot/memdisk |
| initrd (hd0,3)/kolibri/kolibri.img |
| |
| The initial variant was: |
| |
| label KolibriOS |
| root (hd[Hard disk number],[partition number]) |
| kernel [path]/memdisk |
| initrd [path]/kolibri.img |
| |
| Here 'memdisk' and 'kolibri.img' must be placed on the same partition. |
| |
| Example: |
| label KolibriOS |
| root (hd0,0) |
| kernel /boot/memdisk |
| initrd /boot/kolibri.img |
| This example is the variant described on english forum, with install to |
| Linux boot partition (of course, without FAT partition). |
| |
| 5) The previous method could not work as is in GRUB2 (tested by Apocalypse_dn), |
| the commands "linux16" and "initrd16" should be used instead of "kernel" |
| and "initrd" (suggested by vkos). |
| |
| 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"). |