Making a bootable Pen Drive for Installation of Hamara

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On MS-Windows

1. Have a download manager. For instance, http://freedownloadmanager.org/ is one such client, install it as you would any MS-Windows program.

2. Now download the .iso you want from https://www.hamaralinux.org/download .

Now here you have two choices -

a. http://downloads.hamaralinux.org/final/hamara_1.0.2_i686.iso - (32 bit) b. http://downloads.hamaralinux.org/final/hamara_1.0.2_amd64.iso -(64 bit)

Notes -

1. The release number shared is just a symbol. The release numbers will change as newer releases come. 2. The difference between 32-bit and 64-bit are basically on how much memory they can use, how much hard disk space they can use as well as also a bit on multi-core and parallel processing as well.

The 32-bit cannot use more than 4 GB of RAM so you cannot have too many web-pages in a browser open as well as many applications running at the same time without being sluggish. Modern browsers need and do lot of things in the background hence they use quite a bit of memory.

The 64-bit on the other hand, can theoretically can address upto 18 Exabytes but due to current processor and other technologies can only address upto 4 Pebibyte/Petabyte . One Pebibyte/Petabyte is 1024 Tebibyte/1000 Terabyte so we have quite some time to go at least on consumer devices.

Once the .iso is downloaded, check that the .iso is correct by downloading ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/binary/sha1sum.exe and using it to compare the sha1sum from the one given on the site to the one that is generated by running sha1sum against it.

The way to do it is like this :-

a. Go to Start > Run (or you use can Alt+F4)

b. Write CMD to start the Windows shell

c. Give the path where you downloaded the sha1sum utility against the path where you have downloaded the .iso . As an example :-

C:\D:\sha1sum.exe D:\hamara_1.0.2_amd64.iso

It will generate an sha1sum. Copy the sha1sum to your notepad and compare it with the sha1sum shared on the website. If the two are same, then we are in business.

Now it is time to put it on the pen-drive.

Put the pen-drive in your Windows machine, make sure the pen-drive is empty or the contents backed up and run Rufus.

Make sure that Rufus knows the full path to the .iso image and the pen-drive is also being found.

Look through all the options and depending on your system, memory, OS and port you should have the USB disk in sometime.

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