Installing to disk
Installation is optional. The live image is the same system that gets installed, by construction — the installer copies the running root into place rather than unpacking a separate payload.
Front ends
One installer core with three faces:
ainstallgui— the wizard on the Fasadas desktop.ainstaller— a framebuffer text UI, with no X and no ncurses.ainstall— the command line, for scripting.
What it does
- Partitions the target: a FAT partition for
/bootand an ext2 root. - Creates the filesystem and labels it
AnotherRoot. - Copies the live system — already in the versioned farm layout — into the mounted target.
- Installs the bootloader.
afdisk is available separately for partitioning by hand. It names partition
types rather than asking for hex codes, and writes nothing until you type
write.
A warning worth reading
The installer will happily use a disk that has something else on it. Check the device name on the summary screen before confirming. There is no undo.
More documentation
- Booting the live image
- Packages and the filesystem
- How it boots
- The syscall ABI
- Hardware support
- ACPI
- UEFI boot entries
- NetBooting a Mac
- The AO toolkit
- Grafika — the graphics API
- The display protocol
- Desktop effects
- The level bezel
- Notifications
- Rastinis — the file manager
- File operations
- Audio — Garsas
- Hardware video decode
- Networking — Tinklas
- Network shares — SMB and NFS
- Remote control
- The Win32 subsystem
- DirectX and OpenGL for Win32 programs
- Ports and packaging