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ALX Wiremod E2 PC & OS
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More documentation for CD Burner? #17

Open chexo3 opened 2 years ago

chexo3 commented 2 years ago

I want to burn a mini disc with a live install of ALX OS. How can I do this? What settings for the disc do I use?

AlexALX commented 2 years ago
  1. You need create proper disk using info from burner by pressing F1 when choosing disk type for burn.
  2. You need setup "boot function" with "alxos_setup".
  3. Burn the disk.

Keep in mind - latest wiremod on workshop is NOT yet included disk geometry fix so you must use git version of wiremod for make cd drive to work, but i guess its fine for you since you can boot up to burner.

chexo3 commented 2 years ago

I was wondering if there was a way to convince the installer to install to a disc? So I could run the OS off of a disc drive. I don’t really need to be able to make my own setup disc.

AlexALX commented 2 years ago

Ah, i understand your question bit wrong then.

Well, not sure if live cd even possible to do with current code, since if you make "alxos_boot" as boot func, it will try read "wm1" filesystem from disk, but it has WCD filesystem, so wont boot properly - it will just can't read "boot.ini" as well as "kernel.sys" from root of disk.

Basically all boot-related code is in expression2\alx_pc\cpu\alxos\bootmenu.txt

chexo3 commented 2 years ago

Sounds like it’d be a simple solution though. The disc would have to be large enough of course (that’s another thing I’ve been meaning to ask about, the setup disc seems to contain more data than the “effective size” listed by wiremod), but then it seems like your code should just be able to be modified to accept a WCD FS also, and just work.

AlexALX commented 2 years ago

Well, i'm not sure what i'll can update my addon, will see.