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Quickstart Burn a CD from the ISO. Sorry, I’m not providing floppy boot images as floppies are massively unreliable. Add a DNS entry in for MIDS in your domain. If you are 'company.com' you will now have mids.company.com in your DNS. Setup an anonymous FTP server. Obviously, this needs to be at the same address which MIDS now resolves. Expand the support files. From the root of the FTP server, create /mids/1.0/ and unzip the support files in there. Boot a machine up using the CD. If everything has gone correctly, you should see the MIDS menu system. Customise the menus for your environment. The file mainmenu.sh must be edited to provide the menu options you require. Create an image. MIDS uses images which are created by G4U. You can use either whole disk images or partition images. I recommend working with just partitions for perfomance reasons. Modify mainmenu.sh to reflect your own details. The important lines have been commented out to ensure I don't get blamed for wiping 10 years work from your C: drive. These are clearly marked at the bottom of the file. Modify the script to reflect your own needs, but remember that it must be saved back to your FTP server in UNIX format. Either use an editor which supports this (Windows notepad does NOT!) or convert the file using a converter such as dos2unix Partition management The traditional setup for a DOS machine (and therefore the rule still holds for Windows machines) is to boot the single active partition on a disk. When building your image make sure to make a note of how many sectors you need to allocate for the partition. The partition will start at sector 63 and will be of size 4096512 sectors if it’s 2000.3 gb. Use “parts wd0” to find out this information when you are creating your image. Most windows machines are setup to boot to a single partition. MIDS is by Rob Bennett, 2005