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Installation of Remix OS on Hard Disk or within a Virtual Machine

Step 1: Partitioning and formatting of the (virtual) disk

The Remix OS installation tool offers cfdisk for formatting of the (virtual) disk.

How to use cfdisk has been documented in Installing Remix OS to Hard Drive or Virtual Machine without additional tools.

GParted is a better and more flexible partitioning tool which can be used after you booted your computer or your virtual machine with PartedMagic (see Tools ).

In Virtualbox that can be done by attaching the pmagic.iso as "Optical Drive" to the IDE controller (section "Storage").

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After booting with PartedMagic you can start the "Partition Editor" (GParted). You'll find a new (virtual) disk "unallocated".

After creating a MS-DOS partition table ("Device > Create Partition Table") you can create an ext4 partition for Remix OS, and a swap partition.

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The partition table has to be different if you are setting up a dual boot system - see "How to install Remix OS alongside Ubuntu (Dual Boot)"

Step 2: Booting with Remix OS

You'll take a bootable USB device (original or OTA updated) for installing Remix OS on a hard disk.

Working with a virtual machine, you'll attach the Remix_OS.iso to it's optical drive, if it is the current version (case 1).

If you do not have an iso file of the current version, but an updated Remix-OS USB drive, take it for booting (case 2).

Case 1

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Case 2

If your Remix-OS USB drive has been updated already (see OTA-Update USB Installation ) the source of your installation has to be an USB device. You'll create a VirtualBox Raw Hard Disk Access (see Tools ):

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Step 3: Remix OS Start options "INSTALL=1 DEBUG="

Press the Tab key shortly after you see the Remix OS boot menu and change the start options with "INSTALL=1 DEBUG="

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Step 4: Remix OS Installation

- Select a partition where to install Android-x86 (usually sda1, formatted with ext4)

If you are setting up a dual boot system, the partition may be sda2 - see "How to install Remix OS alongside Ubuntu (Dual Boot)"

- Do not format, if you have created the partitions with PartedMagic

If you did not use additional tools (see "Installing Remix OS to Hard Drive or Virtual Machine without additional tools") formatting is needed.

- Do you want to install boot loader GRUB? - usually "Yes". If you are setting up a dual boot system: "No"

- Do you want to install EFI GRUB2? - usually "No"

- Do you want to install /system directory as read-write? - "Yes"

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Step 5: Setting up Remix OS

After the start of Android-x86 RemixOS will be initialized. Be patient - this can last up to 30 minutes (especially in virtual machines). You'll see "RemixOS" flashing a long time.

If your installation has been performed within a virtual machine you'll need "mouse integration" for the next steps.

In VirtualBox you have to click "Input > Mouse Integration". In VMWare there is a similar command (try Ctrl + G).

You need to manually start and stop the mouse integration (Virtualbox: Right Ctrl key; VMWare: Crtl + Alt), because there are no guest extensions for Remix OS yet.

After a while (the time Remix OS needs to create your new data directory) you'll see the window "Select your language".

- Please click "Select your keyboard layout" first and set up the keyboard layout of your country.

- After clicking "Next" you have to accept a "User agreeement"

- If you are not working with a virtual machine you'll be asked to select your Wi-Fi connection and to enter it's password

- Finally you'll see "Setup is complete. Your Remix OS is ready". Click "Start"

Do not forget to disconnect your installation source before rebooting Remix OS.

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If you have installed the GRUB boot loader, you can boot with PartedMagic again, start the "File Manager", open the Remix OS partition (e.g. sda1), and open directory grub. After opening of "menu.lst" you can modify "timeout=6" to "timeout=0". This way Remix OS will start without showing you a boot menu.

In case of a dual boot system your main operation system will start after the reboot.

You'll have to customize the GRUB settings - see ""How to install Remix OS alongside Ubuntu (Dual Boot)""