Building & Installing
Building the Kernel from source
Step 1
Set up the kernel configuration for your system by editing the
Makefile.cfg and
Makefile.<arch>.cfg files.
At least you need to set the
ACESSDIR variable in
Makefile.cfg to the absolute location of the Acess source.
By default
Makefile.cfg is set up to install to a mtools drive
(A:/Acess2), you can change this to a mounted image by changing the
xCP and
xMKDIR to cp and mkdir, and setting
DISTROOT to the mountpoint.
Step 2
First set the architecture to build for by executing
export ARCH=<architecture>
Then compile the OS with
make clean clean
and install by running
make install
Installing prebuilt binaries
Prebuilt binary packages are a tar archive with a single folder called
Acess2, this folder needs to be copied to the media, and GrUB
set up to point to
Acess2/Acess2.<arch>.bin.
The GrUB kernel command line (the part after the kernel file) should
typically be something like this
/System=fat:/Devices/fdd/0 /Acess=/System/Acess2
This mounts a FAT filesystem on the first floppy disk to /System, and
symbolic links /Acess to /System/Acess2.
Another common option that is appended to that is
-VTerm:Width=800,Height=600
This sets the screen resolution to 800x600, these values can be altered
to suit your hardware.