DynebolicFaq : [http://dynebolic.org/ dyne:bolic homepage]


What is docking?

Docking is installing dyne:bolic to your harddrive without interfering with any other operating systems on your computer.

Is it possible to install dynebolic on a hard disk? If so, what filesystems are supported?

As of version 1.2, yes! This procedure is called "docking", and all you have to do is copy the entire dyne/ directory and subdirectories to the root directory of your hard disk (using Winblows for example that would result in C:\dyne\), whether you have got ext2/3, reiserfs, NTFS, all kind of DOS FAT, BeOS, or *BSD. Hehe! Afterwards you have to boot up normally using your dyne:bolic cd, which will automatically recognize the harddisk partition that contains the dyne/ subdirectory, therefore ejecting the dyne:bolic cd and booting up the image from harddisk. Easy, ain't it?

If you'd rather install dynebolic on a USB drive, check out ["DyneOnUsb"].

how can i install grub/lilo and still able to boot my windowz ??

In most cases, grub will detect your Windows partition automatically. Before installing itself to your hard drive (technically, the MBR), grub will try to detect all the operating systems that exist on your computer and show you the list of OSes that it found. If it found all of them, you can probably install grub without any problem. But remember, ALWAYS BACKUP THINGS YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO LOSE!!!

I don't know about Lilo.

What if I didn't want to use the cd?

You can, as long as you are using a bootloader such as GRUB or LILO (being very careful) and dedicating a partition for dynebolic (please refer to the ["Nesting"] faq in order to do that), in which, as stated you will have to copy the whole dyne/ directory off the cd:


Add the following to your grub.conf file:

...-(the "kernel" line must not be wrapped up)-where X=harddisk and Y=partition where your dyne/ directory is (for example (hd0,0) would mean first hardisk, first partition; (hd1,0) second harddisk, first partition; (hd0,1) first harddisk, second partition and so on...)

As for the vga option, please refer to the chart further on, substituting the ZZZZZ number with the hexadecimal number of your choice.

Nb. In /dyne/grub.conf there is an example which is slightly different, and maybe even better.


1.Add the following to your /etc/lilo.conf file:

...where Path.Of.Mounted.Dyne.Directory is where your dyne directory resides (in my case, since I mount the /dev/hda4 partition containing the dyne/ directory in /mnt/dynebolic, that would result in image = /mnt/dynebolic/dyne/linux and initrd = /mnt/dynebolic/dyne/initrd.gz accordingly)

As for the vga option, please refer to the chart further on, substituting the ZZZ number with the decimal number of your choice.

2.Run lilo -t (test), and if lilo didn't show errors, run lilo and reboot.



Colours

640x480

800x600

1024x768

1152x864

1280x1024

1600x1200

15 bits

0x310

0x313

0x316

0x162

0x319

0x31D

16 bits

0x311

0x314

0x317

0x163

0x31A

0x31E

decimal

785

788

791

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794

798

24 bits

0x312

0x315

0x318

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0x31B

0x31F

decimal

786

789

792

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795

799

32 bits

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0x164

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Is it possible to use a special partition with the iso on it?

I want to boot dyne:bolic on my hard drive with the iso image mounted, I know this is doable, I just need a script or documentation, where can I find that?

See http://freaknet.org/martin/dynebolic/ for some notes and helper scripts. --rurban