User's Guide

This is the HelenOS user's guide. It covers a wide spectrum of topics related to everyday activities of a HelenOS user. The topics are thematically grouped into a couple of categories that roughly correspond to getting HelenOS up and running, getting familiar with the running HelenOS environment and using various HelenOS subsystems. Each topic comes in a dedicated article linked from this page.

Read this guide carefully before posting questions to the mailing list.

This guide is not complete and always in need of improvements.

Quick Start

• UsersGuide/QuickStart: Quick and easy way to get HelenOS up and running in close to no time.

Downloading, booting, installing and building

• UsersGuide/RunningInQEMU: Running HelenOS in QEMU on different architectures
• UsersGuide/RunningInVirtualBox: Running HelenOS in VirtualBox
• UsersGuide/SPARC: Booting HelenOS on SPARC
• UsersGuide/Installation: Installing to hard disk in QEMU
• UsersGuide/CompilingFromSource: Compiling HelenOS from source

Playing with the environment

• UsersGuide/GUI: Moving virtual terminals around
• UsersGuide/Console: Switching VCs. Mostly. (obsolete)
• UsersGuide/Shell: Navigating in the bdsh. The primary way to control the system.
• UsersGuide/Editor: Using the HelenOS text editor.
• UsersGuide/TextEditing: Common Text Editing Keys. If it can edit text, it supports these controls.
• UsersGuide/CommandReference: List of commands you can run from the shell.
• UsersGuide/KernelConsole: Kernel hacker's penultimate tool to debugging the system.
• UsersGuide/UserSerialConsole: Setting up a serial console as the user interface

Going deeper into the subsystems

• UsersGuide/TasksMonitoring: See what is running on the system, killing tasks
• UsersGuide/ServicesAndDevices: Introduction to Services and Devices
• UsersGuide/DisksFileSystems: Disks and File Systems
• UsersGuide/Networking: Configuring and using TCP/IP networking
• UsersGuide/Audio: Audio devices and applications
• UsersGuide/Printing: Configuring and using printers