[DEPRECATED] Downloading and Installing

Physical: Floppy

ICS-OS fits in a single 1.44MB floppy disk. The fastest way to test ICS-OS is to download the latest floppy disk image and write it directly to a floppy disk.

In linux, you can use the dd command

$sudo dd if=ics-os-floppy of=/dev/fd0 bs=2880

If the write is successful, test the floppy by rebooting your PC. Make sure that the floppy comes first in the boot device priority in the BIOS setup.

Virtual/Emulation: qemu/kvm

KVM should give the fastest hardware emulation, provided you have rather modern hardware. It is also rather simple to get started, when compared with bochs and VBox.

Installation

$sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm

Running

$qemu-system-i386 -fda ics-os-floppy.img

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