Notes on New Installation of Operating Systems

Basic Principles

When installing an operating system on an "empty" noax system, sthere are various limitations that have to be observed, depending on the existing configuration of IPC and peripheral devices. In addition to this, limitations of the operating systems in question have to be taken into account. Since a "naked" system needs some initial medium from which to boot it, the following is an explanation of meaningful technically possible combinations:

Series P5 Units

These units possess a USB connection but cannot boot from this . The following combinations would therefore seem good choices:

- Boot from standard service floppy disk with access to USB resp. parallel CD-ROM and network

Series P6 Units

These can boot from USB. This expands the options as follows:

- Boot from USB floppy with access to USB CD, parallel CD, network
- Boot from standard service floppy with access to USB CD, parallel CD, network
- Boot from USB CD-ROM with access to USB CD-ROM, parallel CD, network
- Boot from USB ZIP with access to USB CD-ROM, parallel CD, network
- Boot from USB flashstick with access to USB CD-ROM, parallel CD, network

Alternatives

The boot disk/CD has to have appropriate drivers installed and set up accordingly. The noax Service staff can prepare such boot disks/CDs for you on request.

Due to the great variety of possible combinations of booting method, source media and operating system plus installation method, it is necessary to produce these boot media individually. Please contact the noax hotline .

As an alternative, we can provide a recovery CD. This CD is bootable (for P6 units via USB CD-ROM) and contains a menu-guided recovery system which allows the image of any operating system on that CD to be copied to the hard disk. These images are optimized for the relevant hardware and only require smaller adjustments like setting the display resolution and calibrating the touchscreen.

The following operating systems are available, amongst others: MSDOS6.22, Windows95, Windows98, Windows NT4.0, Windows2000, WindowsXP, QNX, SUSE Linux. (For technical reasons, not all operating systeme are available for all generations of PCs).

To obtain a recovery CD, please contact the noax hotline .