Newbie ask help
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 10:30 pm
Hello to all !
I am very well interested into Kolibri, who seems really interesting, and would like to install it on a 512 Usb Key
But, as i am not a god in coding, i am a bit lost between img, kernel, etc... (the only language i know is Bash -_- )
As i had problem with instructions under GNU/Linux (Distribution : Arch Linux) i choosed to try via Windows XP.
I downloaded the kolibri-something.7z (a not very Linux friendly format, uh),
renamed the kolibri.iso inside kolibri.img (as instructions only talks about kolibri.img...)
and used the ins.exe i found somewhere on the internet a time ago (it's not my first try) with a previous version of kolibri and many strange files
copied the img to USB flash drive, hoping it's enough
But, after this, kolibriOS won't boot : needs a "kernel.mnt".
Where can i have this kernel.mnt ? Is there many steps after ?
I cannot find proper instructions to follow, they all sounds a bit creepy, speaking of MBR, compiling, dd, etc etc.. And time presses me to find, i go to a trip soon and would very appreciate to take a look at kolib' before going to it...
If i understand how it works, then i should write a tutoriel for newbies, if it can help other peoples like me...
do someone can help me ?
(note : i know a bit, but really a bit, of russian. Enough to read cyrillic and understand some words... But the rest sounds gibberish to me, as i stopped learning this beautiful language T_T )
I am very well interested into Kolibri, who seems really interesting, and would like to install it on a 512 Usb Key
But, as i am not a god in coding, i am a bit lost between img, kernel, etc... (the only language i know is Bash -_- )
As i had problem with instructions under GNU/Linux (Distribution : Arch Linux) i choosed to try via Windows XP.
I downloaded the kolibri-something.7z (a not very Linux friendly format, uh),
renamed the kolibri.iso inside kolibri.img (as instructions only talks about kolibri.img...)
and used the ins.exe i found somewhere on the internet a time ago (it's not my first try) with a previous version of kolibri and many strange files
copied the img to USB flash drive, hoping it's enough
But, after this, kolibriOS won't boot : needs a "kernel.mnt".
Where can i have this kernel.mnt ? Is there many steps after ?
I cannot find proper instructions to follow, they all sounds a bit creepy, speaking of MBR, compiling, dd, etc etc.. And time presses me to find, i go to a trip soon and would very appreciate to take a look at kolib' before going to it...
If i understand how it works, then i should write a tutoriel for newbies, if it can help other peoples like me...
do someone can help me ?
(note : i know a bit, but really a bit, of russian. Enough to read cyrillic and understand some words... But the rest sounds gibberish to me, as i stopped learning this beautiful language T_T )