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More documentation for CD Burner? #17

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chexo3 opened this issue Jun 5, 2022 · 5 comments
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More documentation for CD Burner? #17

chexo3 opened this issue Jun 5, 2022 · 5 comments

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@chexo3
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chexo3 commented Jun 5, 2022

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?

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AlexALX commented Jun 5, 2022

  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.

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chexo3 commented Jun 5, 2022

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.

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AlexALX commented Jun 5, 2022

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

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chexo3 commented Jun 5, 2022

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.

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AlexALX commented Jun 10, 2022

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

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