0,0 → 1,109 |
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 |
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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). |
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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: |
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title KolibriOS |
kernel (hd[Hard disk number],[partition number])[path]/memdisk |
initrd (hd[Hard disk number],[partition number])[path]/kolibri.img |
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(Remember that numeration of partitions in GRUB starts from 0.) |
Example: |
title KolibriOS |
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/memdisk |
initrd (hd0,3)/kolibri/kolibri.img |
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The initial variant was: |
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label KolibriOS |
root (hd[Hard disk number],[partition number]) |
kernel [path]/memdisk |
initrd [path]/kolibri.img |
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Here 'memdisk' and 'kolibri.img' must be placed on the same partition. |
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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). |
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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). |
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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. |
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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"). |