ADIOS FAQQuestions covered in this FAQ:
If you have Windows XP already installed and you want to run Linux entirely in RAM then choose run option 1. If you want to save and restore changes to an archive tgz file on an USB flash memory stick then use run option 3. Both of these run options do NOT write to the hard disk on your system.
However if you have a copy of the CD image such as adios-6.0.iso already on your windows filesystem, move it to the root or top directory on your filesystem and then use run option 7. Alternatively you can copy the ADIOS CDROM using software that comes with your CD writer or you can use the windows version of the dd command to copy the CD to an iso image on your windows filesystem. Run option 7 will run faster than option 1 and will free up the CD drive. If you want to only save and restore changes to an archive tgz file on the USB device then use run option 37.
If you want to save your files to disk with minimal change to your system then use run option 10 (this is equivalent to options 2, 7 and 9). If no FAT filesystem exists it will create a 2GB FAT filesystem. Then it will copy the CD to an ISO image on the FAT filesystem, create a loopback filesystem for read-write files (var.img) and create a swap file (swap.img). The next time you choose option 10 it will use the ISO and var and swap created previously. The boot CD is only used to boot the image, no change is made to your boot sequence, the ADIOS image runs at the same speed as if you had installed Linux in its own partition.
If you want to install ADIOS onto your windows hard disk then run option 5, this will repartition your hard disk and create an EXT3 filesytem for you, then it will copy all of the files from the ADIOS CD to disk and make your system dual boot both windows and linux.
If you already have multiple partitions or you want to only install Linux you can run the fdisk command. You then run the install command to copy the CD to a partition. You then need to run a linux loader such as lilo so that you can dual boot into windows or linux Note: The ADIOS CD has a set of boot options hda1, hda2, ... hda9 which will boot the ADIOS image once installed.
Since Windows XP's built-in CD burning engine does not support burning ISO images to disk, you will need a third-party solution. There are lots of free or shareware utilities for Windows that can burn ISO images. Perhaps one came with your CD burner. (e.g. Nero)
I used ISO Recorder Power Toy.
It is a UI component that allows the use of the CD-Recording capabilities of Windows XP to
record ISO images and copy CD to CD.
The ISO Recorder uses existing OS features to copy an ISO image. This software works
on Windows XP only.
To download a copy goto: http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm (it's about 1.3 MB)
It is very easy to use. Just install the executable and the next time you run Explorer, you RIGHT click on the .iso file and select "Copy Image to CD". Simple.
Use the
The ADIOS development kit (adk) uses a Makefile which you
copy from /mnt/cdrom/adk to /root or whatever directory you want to use. The adk software
assumes you have already installed the ADIOS kernel on you linux system. This can be done
using the hidden commands from the run options menu, read the notes on how to install
ADIOS manually by resizing an existing NTFS partition from http://os.cqu.edu.au/adios/ntfsresizing.html
OR You could download the ADIOS kernel source code from http://os.cqu.edu.au/adios/pub/kernels
and rebuild it. In any case your system must support squashfs to be able to run the
adk Makefile. You must edit the Makefile to reflect your partitions, the software was
developed using one partition for your RedHat system (or ADIOS) and another partition
called
Most likely Fedora RedHat won't as well. But you
can run
mcopy /etc/sysconfig/hwconf a:
mcopy /var/log/dmesg a:
mcopy /var/log/messages a:
The network drivers will not be there unless you use the
run options commands such as "adios", "lsmod" and
"modprobe", to extract the kernel modules from the squashfs file
The first phase of starting up the CD is rather
historical in that I used to use "syslinux", this meant that the space for all
of those startup files such as the initial ram disk and kernel was really tight. To save
space on the boot floppy I placed the extra kernel modules in the file
"rdfiles.tgz". From the ADIOS development kit (adk) and after you have
rebuilt the kernel, you can copy the files required from
Note: The ADIOS 4 boot CD places all of the files that used to be in rdfiles within the initial ramdisk initrd.gz
There appears to be a problem with
packets larger than 1484 bytes when communication is passed over two or more UML virtual
machines and a remote system via the parent system. Run the
There appears to be a bug in the script command which can be ignored by simplifying the prompt as follows (assuming you are the root user your prompt will end with #).
cat file-generated-by-script | sed 's/.*#/ADIOS #/' > new-script-file
Solution is to mount remote systems on
the parent system and then access those files from the
Boot the ADIOS CD and run the script
One solution is to boot up using option 2 and then edit
the
For ADIOS 3 the default resolution is set to 1024x78, this can be changed using run option d. Alternatively starting in run level 3 will allow you to run older software such xf86config or modify the /etc/X11/XF86Config file from examples downloaded from the Internet. Try starting by limiting the graphics to 800x600 pixels with 16 colors (not 16 bit color) and 1MB of RAM. Choose a generic laptop or screen resolution to support 800x600 and it should start. To obtain better graphics for your video adapter may require an X11 module patch which means waiting for the next release of the boot CD.
Run option 5 will repartition your NTFS filesystem to add an EXT3 filesystem, but you must DEFRAG your windows system first. Option 5 will then copy the ADIOS filesystem into the new partition and run the linux loader LILO, changing the active partition to the second partition. After rebooting you will be able to select Windows or Linux.
There are commands in the boot option to install ADIOS into its own partition but it does require the user to have already built a linux partition and to know how to modify lilo or grub configuration files.
Read the NTFS resizing document if you want to see how to do it manually.
The hidden command
Read the ADIOS LIDS documentation.
You need the grub loader for windows and copies of
the kernel and initial ramdisk and an entry in the boot.ini file. The windows script
Written by Neville Richter, n.richter@cqu.edu.au Copyright GNU Public Licence 2003-2006.