110 lines
5.1 KiB
Plaintext
110 lines
5.1 KiB
Plaintext
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
|
|
|
|
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").
|