NiriWM ISO Installation

Essentially, we’ll use ros-installer to automate the installation process from a Live ISO to the machine using the unsquashfs method and some other related techniques during the process.

Note

Currently, only Offline Installation is supported, and there are no plans to switch the installation process to online for the following reasons:

• Online Installation can be quite risky if the network encounters problems during the installation process, such as installing a package, as restarting the process would be very inconvenient.
• The Online Installation process is not compatible with the original design of this distribution (RengeOS).
• Maintaining other packages and infrastructure using online methods would be quite expensive for me :(

• This is what it will look like:

Boot into Live ISO

Caution

• Make sure you have disabled Secure Boot in your computer manufacturer’s BIOS. Otherwise, it will not boot!

• First, we need to plug in the bootable USB drive containing the ISO file. Then, depending on your computer’s hardware manufacturer, access the boot menu and boot from that USB drive.

• Then you will see the boot menu will look like this (UEFI). For Legacy BIOS, it will display similarly but with a slightly different interface.

Tip

If you don’t know what to choose, just select Linux Latest.

Note

“If you encounter a black screen error when selecting Linux Latest on Intel 10th generation chips (reported black screen issues), try selecting Linux LTS.

Start the installation process

• After the systemd process is complete, you will see a screen like this and it is NiriWM

• Now we need to press the Win+Enter or Mod+Enter key combination to open the kitty terminal.

• Next, let’s start the installation process with ros-installer.

ros-installer

• Immediately after you run the installer, this interface will appear on the screen.

• Now, at this step, please follow these instructions below:

Installation instructions

After the installation process is complete

• After we have completed the installation process, please read the user guide here:

NiriWM Edition Configuration