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• Brandon

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  Joined: Tue Jun 02, 2009 3:19 am

  Tue Jun 02, 2009 3:29 am

  I guess I will introduce myself, I spent some time working with Puppy Linux, remastering it as DCL. Also I've been using BASIC for about 5 years, QBASIC and FreeBASIC with the goal to make a GUI for on DOS. Recently I decided that DOS doesn't multitask, and I'm not going to make it.
  
  I've tried every OS I can get my hands on, and Kolibri seems closest to my "ideal OS", so I want to be able to contribute, so I'm wonder what is the best way? Is it to learn C,ASM? Somehow use BASIC?
  I'm also a webmaster, I run a DOS GUI website, and met Trolly on it, so if there is anything there I could help with?
  
  I suppose its a little off topic, but what's the recommended way to install to a hard drive(well CF in a USB adapter)?

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art_zh Kernel Developer

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Joined: Fri Aug 14, 2009 1:46 am

Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:35 am

Brandon wrote: I suppose its a little off topic, but what's the recommended way to install to a hard drive?

A Linux-master may find it useful to load Kolibri with Grub.

1) Create two small FAT partitions on your disk (100 Mb is a lot for any KOS application). Let's say for sure the 2nd and 3rd partitions of your 2nd hard disk created ( /dev/hdb2 & /dev/hdb3 or (hd1,1) & (hd1,2) in Grub's own enumeration).
2) Mount these partitions to your filesystem as /KOS/raw and /KOS/stable.
3) Download a recent version of KolibriOS to both. Check that kolibri.img is there!
4) Add copies of memdisk (a part of syslinux package) to /KOS/raw and /KOS/stable.
5) Being a root, add few lines to Grub' configuration /boot/grub/menu.lst:

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title KolibriOS - experimental
   rootnoverify (hd1,1)
   kernel /memdisk 
   initrd /kolibri.img

title KolibriOS - stable
  rootnoverify (hd1,2)
  kernel /memdisk
  initrd /kolibri.img

6) Reboot, choose "KolibriOS - experimental" in your next Grub session and have lot of fun with it. You've loaded it from your HDD!
7) Staying inside KOS, you will be able to edit and recompile your kernel sources. Alternatively, you can copy externally compiled core to your ramdisk from any physical DOS/Win disk of your computer (Kolibri can't read ext2/ext3 yet!).
Don't forget to store you ramdisk each time leaving Kolibri session!
9) A buggy kernel will fail your next boot. That's why do whatever you want with your first KOS-disk files only, and copy the stuff to /KOS/stable when you're sure it's really stable....

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