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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 10:21 Subject: Little Angel Tutorial 1 -- Quick Start

Little Angel is today released with a new tool, la.exe, which helps you to make your windows xp/2k3 system to run in ram, believe it or not, without having you to type a keystroke!

The following is the tutorials about how la is used.

Please do not post any messages below in this thread. Any such messages will be deleted to make the tutorial easy to read.

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 10:44 Subject: Step 0 - Downloading

To have a quick start to take your xp/2k3 system image to run in ram, firstly you have to download the following two zip packages and unzip them into folders in your hard disk:

dala.zip at

http://disklessangel.com/modules.php?name=down1

g4dimdiskerunt.zip at

http://disklessangel.com/modules/down/g4dimdiskerunt.zip

Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 11:00 Subject: Step 1 - Setting Up

For using LiveCopy, you could setup g4dimdiskerunt.zip before setting up dala.zip as described below.

For using StillCopy, you must setup dala.zip before setting up g4dimdiskerunt.zip.

So setting up dala.zip before setting up g4dimdiskerunt.zip is the best choice.

This following setup order assumes you could use LiveCopy with la.exe. Otherwise, go to #5 of this thread to setup dala.zip before setting up g4dimdiskerunt.zip below:

After unzipping, go to the g4dimdiskerunt folder to run setup.exe inside:

and then press Setup files button.

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 11:04

And the press Yes to setup imdisk and then continue to setup erunt:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 11:11

Then go to the dala folder and run la.exe and follow the screenshots below:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 11:12

After clicking Yes:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 11:13

After clicking OK:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 11:14

The Diskless Angel is installed. You now need to click The Tools menu inside and then choose Install VDisk Driver:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 11:22

After clicking Continue Anyway:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 11:23

After clicking OK:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 11:25

You can choose to reboot now or reboot later after closing all your applications.

Then you come to the following screen after reboot:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 11:36

So select the first entry for going inside to Microsoft Windows first.

After after going back to Windows, follow the following screen:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 11:37

Select the No radio button and then press the Next button:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 11:41

After choosing the Advanced Option and pressing the Next button:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 11:43

In the above screen, you have to select the folder where Diskless Angel is installed. It is in the Program filesDiskless Angel folder of your system drive as indicated above. Then press Next:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 11:46 Subject: Step 2 - Making Image

The above screens finish the setup of grub4dos, imdisk, Diskless Angel & Little Angel altogether.

Then go back to the dala folder and run la.exe again:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 12:02

In the above screen, you just press the LiveCopy button. Little Angel will then calculate the size of the Image File to be made for you. This is a mini-xp to be copied into the mini-xp.dsk file to be run later into ram for you:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 12:03

Press Yes:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 12:04

Press OK:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 12:05

Press OK. The calculated Image Size is about 259M and after pressing OK, a further 100M will be added to the Image Size for the Image File to be made:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 12:09

The above screen advises that pressing LiveCopy again will start the real LiveCopying process to make the mini-xp image file for you:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 12:10

After pressing OK:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 12:14

The above screen asks you to select the .dsk image file to be made in the following screen. After pressing OK, the following screen of la will propose a default .dsk filename for you at your system drive. In this case, the system drive is quite full so you select a drive with sufficient diskspace to store this image file:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 12:16

C: drive, the system drive, does not have enough space, so you select the data drive, E: drive to store the image file:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 12:17

After pressing Save, la makes the mini-xp image file for you:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 12:20

After clicking OK, you are returned to the main screen of la and you have just made the mini-xp image file to be run up to ram later. Now you click the Close Application X button at the upper right hand corner of la main screen to quit la:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 12:22

You can either click Yes or No in the above and the following screen to quit. For the time being, you just click No:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 12:24 Subject: Step 3 - Selecting Image to boot into ram

After quitting from la, you now have to run up bootimage.exe in the g4dimdisk folder to specify the image file just made to be booted up into ram after rebooting:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 12:25

After pressing the left hand side button to select the image file to be booted. It opens up the selct image file screen for you to select. After selecting the image file, you press the Open button to finish. bootimage.exe will then quit and return you to the Windows Desktop.

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 12:45 Subject: Step 4 - Rebooting Image to run in ram

After pressing Restart, you reboot your machine and when coming to the following screen, you choose to start the grub4dos bootloader to load up the image file to boot into ram:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 12:47

After selecting the second entry grub4dos, you come to the grub4dos menu:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 12:51

In the grub4dos menu, you select the fourth title now to boot miniexp.dsk into ram using the mapping method. After that, the miniexp.dsk image file you just made is booted to ram to run, so you have to wait for a moment. After that, you come back to the boot.ini menu and you then choose the first entry to run into Windows:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 12:56

After going back into Windows, you open My Computer or Explorer, you can find a new drive as F: here in blue, meaning it is a compressed NTFS drive.

The system drive now becomes F: instead of C:. However if you choose the Fifth title in the grub4dos menu, then you hide the system drive in the hard disk and it disappears and the da virtual memory drive becomes C:

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Author: windrv Time: 15-3-2008 13:11

The following 2 screens show the selection of hiding the system drive in grub4dos menu and the da virtual memory disk becomes the system drive C:

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Author: windrv Time: 17-3-2008 12:27

If you choose booting into Microsoft Windows under the boot.ini menu and come to this screen afterwards:

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Author: windrv Time: 17-3-2008 12:29 Subject: Step 5 - Rebooting system on hard disk

Don't panic, this is because you have hidden the system drive in the last step. So you reselect the grub4dos entry under the boot.ini menu and go into the grub4dos menu. Then you select the first title under the grub4dos menu as follows:

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Author: windrv Time: 17-3-2008 12:51 Subject: Step 6 - Setting up a non-system ramdisk

After going back into the Windows Desktop, you could go to the g4dimdsik folder and run up bootimage.exe again to create a non-system virtual memory disk for use as a temporary storage area. This is useful, for example, for storing temporary internet files or paging file.

So you can make a non-system ramdisk and make it available for use like this:

1. Run up bootimage.exe

2. Select Create Blank Image

3. Input the Image Size

The Image Size is in MB.

If you want to create a 512MB ramdisk for use, you can just type

512

That is OK.

The maximum size of ramdisk you can create is about 128MB less than the amount of physical system memory detected by your system when booting up.

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Author: windrv Time: 20-3-2008 08:37

After clicking OK and then reboot into the grub4dos menu, you can select the last title.

And then you boot into Microsoft Windows under the boot.ini menu, when returning to the Desktop, you can see a new F: drive of FAT32 510MB.

You can use My Computer to re-format it into NTFS or compressed NTFS as you like.

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Author: windrv Time: 20-3-2008 08:57

For those who want to use the english grldr, please download the following file for the english grldr menu frame and put it to your c::

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