Oberon/ETH Oberon/bootfile

#F0FFF0 This document was originally hosted at the ETHZ. It remains under the ETH license and is in the WayBack archive. Booting an OS in a file, with application to ETH Oberon Summary If one feels it is too risky to partition a hard disk for installing a foreign OS on a working system hosting other OSes, the alternative is to install the unfamiliar OS in a large file in an existing file system. ETH Oberon can then co-exist with any number of other partition-based OSes, including Oberon, in these manners: if Windows is installed, in a FatFS if Linux is installed, in a Linux file system (EXT2) As another example, this technique is also used by the free BeOS 5 Personal Edition. ETH Oberon for Dummies When Windows is installed, this version of Oberon can be installed in a large FAT file. An easy-to-use installation program OberonInstaller.exe running under Windows is included. The program installs the big file and writes an Oberon boot file to a 1.44MB diskette, from which Oberon can then be booted. To uninstall, delete the file. Note: It is an updated version of the software found on the CD-ROM included in the book Beginning Programming for Dummies. Linux-based Oberon When Linux is installed, an emulation of Native Oberon under Linux, is installed in a large file of the Linux file system (EXT2). The goal is not a tight integration in the Linux environment but a binary compatibility with Native Oberon. This implementation does not change the module interfaces. Oberon is started in the X11 environment by executiong a ./oberon command. Installation and usage informations in Native Oberon Installation: Concepts and Procedures. blue [Top] 21 Nov 2002 - Copyright © 2002 ETH Zürich. All rights reserved. E-Mail: oberon-web at inf.ethz.ch Homepage: www.ethoberon.ethz.ch