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| System requirements |
| ------------------- |
| |
| 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 |
| * RAM: 8 MB |
| * Videocard: supporting VGA (640x480x16 mode) or Vesa |
| * Keyboard: AT |
| * Mouse: COM, PS/2 or USB |
| |
| The system can boot from any of following devices: |
| * BIOS mode |
| - Floppy 3.5 |
| - IDE HDD LBA |
| - CD/DVD |
| - USB Flash |
| * UEFI mode |
| - HDD |
| - 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. |
| Installation: BIOS mode |
| ----------------------- |
| |
| ### Install to floppy |
| |
| * Insert clean floppy without bad sectors to drive. |
| * Write to it `kolibri.img` image with any available methods: |
| |
| * (if you have already loaded KolibriOS by any method) run the program |
| `rdsave` and select the variant corresponding to floppy; |
| |
| * (for DOS and Windows) run subjoined install.bat; |
| |
| * with program WinImage or its analogue (e.g. DiskExplorer); |
| |
| * (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). |
| |
| |
| ### Install to hard disk |
| |
| There exist 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 KolibriOS installed, simply |
| replace `kolibri.img` to the new one. If you have booted from LiveCD, which does |
| not contain the file `kolibri.img`, KolibriOS 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 KolibriOS must be able to write |
| to file system of selected partitions. Currently this means that only FAT and |
| EXT2 volumes are ok. |
| |
| * Most of all features has the loader mtldr (author - Diamond) - works with |
| DOS/Win95/98/NT/2k/XP/Vista, supports FAT32 and NTFS, has installer, 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), |
| Apropos, by this way you can install several images. There is also variant of |
| install by hand - for those who want to know what installer does: directions |
| in `HD_load\mtldr`. |
| |
| * 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`. |
| |
| * Moreover, there exists a program which allows to load KolibriOS 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: |
| |
| * Usage of the loader GRUB. Place the file `memdisk` to the folder `boot` |
| or to the partition used for KolibriOS. |
| |
| 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`. |
| |
| then, run in terminal 'sudo update-grub'. |
| b) For old GRUB, add to the configuration file `menu.lst` next lines: |
| |
| 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"). |
| ### 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 directory `HD_load\USB_Boot`. |
| |
| For not-FAT32 drives you may use article placed in the directory |
| `HD_load\USB_Boot_old`. |
| |
| |
| ### Install to CD and DVD |
| |
| There exists special LiveCD-version of KolibriOS, which contains in addition to |
| standard things some 'heavy' (in KolibriOS 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'). |
| |
| |
| Installation: UEFI mode |
| ----------------------- |
| |
| UEFI support is still in beta. Be ready to face issues and report them. |
| |
| ### Install to hard disk |
| |
| * To boot KolibriOS from HDD these four files are needed: |
| |
| * `uefi4kos`: UEFI-specific loader for KolibriOS, shipped as `bootx64.efi` and |
| `bootia32.efi` binaries. Choose one of these `boot*.efi` images to match the |
| architecture of your machine's UEFI firmware. Use `bootx64.efi` if unsure. |
| * `kolibri.img`: a RAM disk image. |
| * `kolibri.krn`: KolibriOS kernel compiled without BIOS-related legacy stuff. |
| * `kolibri.ini`: a configuration file. It is used to e.g. set screen |
| resolution. |
| |
| |
| * If you have any UEFI-aware OS installed on your HDD, then there already is a |
| so called EFI system partition (ESP) on it. If your HDD is not partitioned |
| yet, you have to first create a GUID partition table (GPT) on it and then |
| create mentioned EFI system partition formatted as FAT32. |
| |
| * Make a directory `/efi/kolibrios` on the ESP. |
| |
| * Copy all the `kolibri.???` files mentioned above to that directory. |
| |
| * If KolibriOS is the only OS to be loaded from that HDD, make a directory |
| `/efi/boot` and copy the chosen `boot*.efi` loader there. |
| |
| * If there is some other OS already installed on the HDD, put `boot*.efi` file |
| to `/efi/kolibrios` directory and then setup the boot loader of the installed |
| OS to boot KolibriOS. |
| |
| For example, for GRUB2 (nowadays also known as just GRUB, not GRUB1 or |
| GRUB-legacy) follow these three steps: |
| |
| 1. Append file `/etc/grub.d/42_custom` with a new menu entry. |
| |
| ``` |
| menuentry "KolibriOS" { |
| insmod part_gpt |
| insmod fat |
| insmod chain |
| chainloader /EFI/kolibrios/bootx64.efi |
| } |
| ``` |
| |
| 2. Locate GRUB config file in your system, namely `grub.cfg`. It might be in |
| `/boot/grub/`. |
| |
| 3. Update `grub.cfg` with a command like below. |
| ``` |
| sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg |
| ``` |
| |
| |
| ### Install to USB flash drive |
| |
| * If you prefer to keep all the data on the USB drive, follow the |
| steps above for hard disks. |
| |
| * If, instead, you are okay to lose all the data on the USB drive, use |
| `kolibri.raw` image. It is ready to be directly written to the flash drive. |
| |
| Linux users can write the image with standard utilities `cat` or `dd`. |
| |
| Windows users can use [Rawwrite32] or [Rufus]. |
| |
| [Rawwrite32]: https://www.netbsd.org/~martin/rawrite32/ |
| [Rufus]: https://rufus.ie |