Installing Symmetry

by Stephen Gentle

Prerequisites

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To install Symmetry, you must have the following tools installed:

  * Make

  * GCC (Version 4.3 recommended)

  * NASM

  * Tar

Additionally, to make a CD image that can be burnt to a disc or run in an 

emulator, make sure you have the following:

  * genisoimage

  * GNU Grub

Preparing for the build

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Before you try to build Symmetry, you must ensure that the following folders 

exist:

  * image/System/

  * image/System/Kernel

You then need to move into the build directory and run the following command,

which will create the directories where the object files that the compiler

produces will be stored.

  make setup

Building Symmetry

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To build Symmetry, just change directory to the build directory, and run the

following command, which will build the kernel and generate an initial ramdisk:

  make

To create a CD image, run the following command after the kernel has finished

building:

  make install

The file 'symmetry.iso' will be created in the build directory. This can be

burnt onto a writeable CD or used in an emulator or virtualisation tool.