     [ Installation ]ķ
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  The base-installation can only be done using DOS or a DOS-Box. If you got  
   Unix/Linux, you have to boot from a DOS disc. Note: You will never need   
   to boot ugly DOS again :)                                                 
                                                                             
  1. Get a blank, formatted disc. Insert this disc into drive A: and start   
      the file MAKEDISK.COM from the AiR-BOOT archive.                       
                                                                             
  2. Check your CMOS-Setup. Deselect 'Virus Warning', if this option is      
      available and change the boot-sequence to something, where A: is the   
      first entry. Don't forget to save the changes to your CMOS.            
                                                                             
  3. Now boot from the disc made in step 1.                                  
                                                                             
  4. AiR-BOOT INSTALL is now taking over and you should be able to finish    
      the installation process alone.                                        
                                                                             
  5. After INSTALL did its work, you will get into the built-in SETUP.       
      NOTE: You may enter AiR-BOOT SETUP later by holding Strg and/or Alt at 
            AiR-BOOT startup. (Strg is sometimes labeled Ctrl)               
                                                                             
  6. After being in AiR-BOOT SETUP, you should change your boot-sequence to  
      something like 'C only' or some selection, where C: is in front.       
      NOTE: Do not reactivate 'Virus Protection'. AiR-BOOT does a better job 
            and you would get a Virus-Warning on every boot.                 
                                                                             
  Okay, all should work now and you have a virus protected system featuring  
   AiR-BOOT.                                                                 
                                                                             
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  If at some point AiR-BOOT is not coming up due e.g. installing a new OS,   
   you will have to insert your AiR-BOOT disc/CD-ROM and boot from it again. 
   AiR-BOOT INSTALL will automatically detect what was going wrong and let   
   you select, if it should repair the damage.                               
                                                                             
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     [ Explanation ]ķ
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  PARTITION SETUP                                                           
                                                           
  This menu and the usage is very simple, if you know how to do it.          
  All the flags can be toggled on a per-partition basis, which means you the 
  features behind a flag can be used when booting one partition and disabled 
  when using another.                                                        
                                                                             
  To toggle a flag, simply select the corresponding partition and press the  
  letter that represents the flag.                                           
                                                                             
  'B' - Bootable                                                             
         All partitions that got this flag will be listed in the bootmenu.   
                                                                             
  'V' - VIBR Protection                                                      
         Virus-In-Boot-Record Protection. Please see Virus-Detection for     
         more information.                                                   
                                                                             
  'H' - Hide Configuration                                                   
         This flag defines, if a Hide-Configuration is active for this       
         partition. If you press the letter, the Hide-Configuration menu     
         will pop-up and you will be able to define the partitions to hide,  
         when the selected partition is booted.                              
                                                                             
  'L' - Drive-Letter (OS/2 / eCS only)                                       
         OS/2 / eCS needs the drive-letter of the partition to boot.         
         You have to enter the drive letter, that OS/2 / eCS assigned it.    
         It's not possible to detect it. (XFDisk actually guesses)           
                                                                             
  'P' - Extended Partition MS Work-Around                                    
         This flag is only useful, when the global MS-Work-Around switch is  
         enabled as well. When that's the case and a partition is booted     
         WITH this flag being active, all extended partitions will be        
         modified to meet the pseudo-standards by Microsoft. If the          
         partition got this flag disabled, then all partitions will get      
         modified to meet the REAL standard.                                 
         For further information please look below.                          
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  VIRUS DETECTION                                                           
                                                           
  AiR-BOOT includes 3 different methods of virii detection.                  
  Almost any boot-virus should be covered with those.                        
                                                                             
  Normal - This one will compare the MBR in memory with the MBR on drive at  
            each boot. So normal MBR virii will get found.                   
                                                                             
  Stealth - This one will detect virii that hide themselves and fake BIOS    
             HDD access API. Normal detection would fail on those virii.     
                                                                             
  VIBR - Virus-In-Boot-Record Detection. Requires the global switch AND the  
          specific partition-flag to be enabled. This one will check the     
          bootrecord of the selected partition for modifications.            
          This detection is NASTY and may report false positives.            
          If a modified boot-record is found, booting will be denied from    
          that partition. You may reset this check by toggling the V-flag.   
                                                                             
  MBR Protection is likely the same as 'Virus Protection' in your CMOS.      
  It will capture INT 13h (Low level I/O) and watch for writes to cylinder 0 
  and head 0. This will be regarded as a viral act and aborted. The computer 
  will stop and you will see a corresponding message. This option could be   
  incompatible to a 3rd company program, like the option 'Virus Protection'  
  in CMOS is incompatible to AiR-BOOT.                                       
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  EXTENDED PARTITION MS WORK-AROUND                                         
                                         
  This 'feature' needed to be implemented, because of Microsofts way of      
  inventing a pseudo-standard that is incompatible with any other OS.        
                                                                             
  The problem is with the id of extended partitions. The official standard   
  was and is to use '05h'. Now Microsoft "invented" a new id of '0Fh' for    
  extended partitions that occupy space above 8 GB.                          
                                                                             
  But now many OS won't see ANY logical partitions anymore. So a smart user  
  could try to change it back. This works, but (of course) some MS programs  
  like ScanDisk have problems with that one, so they will GARBLE UP entire   
  partitions.                                                                
                                                                             
  So we got the actual standard, that will work somehow even with Windows,   
  but sometimes partitions may (!) get destroyed.                            
  Or we use the MS invention, but lose compatibility to some OSes.           
  ...or we use AiR-BOOT to switch between those 2 "standards" on-the-fly.    
                                                                             
  When the global switch AND the P-flag on the booted partition is enabled,  
  AiR-BOOT will change all extended partitions to be of id '0Fh', so the     
  system will be compatible to MS Windows.                                   
                                                                             
  On the other hand, if the global switch is enabled, but the P-flag is      
  disabled, AiR-BOOT will change them to the real standard, which means for  
  example DOS will recognize the logical partitions again.                   
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     [ Limitations ]ķ
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   If your system fits into one of this categories, do NOT install AiR-BOOT. 
                                                                             
   - You got an encryption tool in your MBR                                  
   - You got ANYTHING useful in your MBR                                     
   - You got more than 30 partitions in total on your system                 
      (AiR-BOOT's internal partition table is unable to hold more than that, 
       it could be expanded at a later date, but I don't see any reason)     
                                                                             
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    [ Known Bugs ]ķ
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  I would call them missing features. There are no known bugs.               
                                                                             
   - Linux normal Kernel image format                                        
                                                                             
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