Advanced Installation Topics
Installing ThinIT and Windows 2000 Side by Side - dual boot
• Install ThinIT as usual.
• When it's finished, reboot the machine with the Windows 2000 CD in the drive.
• When starting up you will be asked you whether you want to boot from the CD
and give you about 5 seconds to respond. Press a key within this time.
• You will then be asked which partition you wish to use. The first of these will be
labelled 'Unknown'. This is the partition that ThinIT is installed on. Select the
'Unpartitioned space' using the cursors and press <RETURN>.
• Select the Format using NTFS option and then go through the rest of the Windows
installation as per normal.
• Once installed, reboot the machine and make sure it does reboot to Windows.
• Now reboot from the ThinIT CDROM or floppies
• On the installation menu, choose option A (Advanced options)
• Next choose option W (Install menu to dual boot ThinIT and Windows)
• Reboot and check you get a boot menu.
Using different kernels
The kernel is the core of the operating system. It deals with all the hardware in your
computer. Unlike Windows, which needs you to locate and install the correct drivers for all
your hardware, the ThinIT kernel already contains drivers for most hardware. However,
occasionally you may need to use a slightly different kernel to get the most of the hardware
in your PC (this is especially true with laptops).
You can change the kernel to install by choosing option K. The standard supported kernel
has drivers for most hardware. If your video card is an ATI Mobility Radeon card (there
may be other cards similarly affected), please choose "Supported kernel without AGP
support". For all other hardware problems, please choose "Experimental snapshot kernel".
N.B. The kernel options alter the drivers only when ThinIT is installed. They will NOT alter
whether or not the installer is able to detect the sound or network drivers. Therefore, you
may need to experiment. Overall, we have only found the need to alter the standard settings
if you have a laptop. Most desktop PCs are fine with the "Standard supported kernel".
When booting from the installation CD, the "Standard supported kernel" is used. To test the
"Standard supported kernel" without installing ThinIT on the machine in question, you can
build boot floppies by using the script called TESTFLPS.BAT in the floppies folder on the
CD ROM.
ThinIT manual v1.29 (Advanced Installation Topics)
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