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1.3. DEVELOPERS CHAPTER 1. INSTALL
1.2.4 VMWare, Linux
After building there is a ready config file (sweb.vmx) for booting SWEB in VMWare
Workstation Linux (>=4.0.5) in the sweb-testing-bin directory. Older versions might
work but have not been tested.
start with ”make vmware”
1.2.5 VMWare, Windows
Actually we do not have compile support in Windows but you can compile everything
on Linux and use it on Windows. You can mount the sweb-testing-bin directory on
your windows host (SMB, NFS, ...) and simply open the sweb.vmx file in VMWare
or you can copy all necessary files (SWEB.vmdk, SWEB-flat.vmdk, nvram, sweb.vmx)
from the sweb-tesing-bin directory to your Windows host and start it. Due to the hard
disk image file format you have to use VMWare Workstation for Windows Version 3.2
or above.
1.2.6 XEN
experimental see instuctions in chapter XEN
1.2.7 ’real’ hardware
For installing sweb to a physical hard drive you first have to create at least 2 partitions
on it (3 if you need the third one for swapping). Then you must install grub
onto the first partition of the harddrive (which has to be the active one), copy swebbin/kernel.x
and sweb/images/menu.lst.hda to the first partition (to destinations
/boot/kernel.x and /boot/grub/menu.lst). Then copy the userprograms
(which can be found in sweb-bin/userspace/) you want to run to the second
partition which has to be minix-formatted.
1.3 Developers
For basic information you should have a look at our homepage (use link http://sweb.sourceforge.net).
known bugs:
• make doesn’t like arguments except
– ”clean”
– ”config”
– ”mrproper”
– ”bochs”
– ”bochsgdb”
– ”install”
– ”qemu”
– ”all”
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