User's Guide

This is the user's guide to HelenOS. It starts from the very basics (like downloading and your first boot), teaches you the basics of using HelenOS (console, shell, etc.) and progresses to more advanced topics.

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, 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 harddisk 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.

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