hal91 user-guide

By Øyvind Kolås

1. Getting started.

• 1.1 Getting hal91
• 1.2 Transferring hal91-0.x.x to a disk
• 1.3 Booting the system
• 1.4 Loading the datadisk

2. System overview.

• 2.1 The standard hal91 booting sequence
• 2.2 The core file system
• 2.3 The /linuxrc file

3. The add.tgz filesystem

• 3.1 The included hal91.ini
• 3.2 Contents of the included etc.tgz

4. Installing hal91 on a dos/windows harddrive.

• 4.1 Installing the base system

5. Customizing the system.

• 5.1 Compiling your own kernel
• 5.2 Creating an own add.tgz system

6. Plans, problems,bugs and things to do

• 6.1 Make networking work
• 6.2 On demand download/execution
• 6.3 bdflush/update

7. Frequently asked questions

• 7.1 Why isn't the image file gzip'd?
• 7.2 Why do you use old binaries?
• 7.3 Will you have X available?
• 7.4 Why isn't there support for <...>?
• 7.5 What about having <...> on the disk?
• 7.6 When booting it displays 'Boot Failed: change disks and press any key.'
• 7.7 hal91 is bigger than one disk!
• 7.8 Netscape displays the file instead of downloading it!
• 7.9 The keyboard settings are incorrect!
• 7.10 Why does initrd.gz still remain the same size after removing files?