1) Download Nimblix ISO from http://nimblex.net
2) Burn or extract the ISO into a local directory on your system.
3) On your Katana Drive, create the file nimblix.cfg in the /boot/menu directory. (This is the menu for Nimblix.) Open nimblix.cfg in a text editor and copy and past the following into it:
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PROMPT 0
#TIMEOUT 90
DEFAULT /boot/vesamenu.c32
MENU BACKGROUND /boot/wallpaper.png
MENU WIDTH 30
MENU MARGIN 0
MENU ROWS 12
MENU HELPMSGROW 22
MENU TIMEOUTROW 26
MENU TABMSGROW 27
MENU CMDLINEROW 27
MENU HSHIFT 24
MENU VSHIFT 0
menu color screen 37;40 #00000000 #00000000 none
menu color border 30;44 #00000000 #00000000 none
menu color title 1;36;44 #aaaaaaaa #00000000 none
#menu color unsel 37;44 #ff60CA00 #00000000 none
menu color unsel 37;44 #aaaaaaaa #00000000 none
menu color hotkey 1;37;44 #ff60CA00 #00000000 none
#menu color sel 7;37;40 #ffffffff #00000000 none
menu color sel 7;37;40 #ffffffff #00000000 none
menu color hotsel 1;7;37;40 #ff808080 #ff60CA00 none
menu color scrollbar 30;44 #00000000 #00000000 none
menu color tabmsg 31;40 #aaaaaaaa #00000000 none
menu color cmdmark 1;36;40 #ffff0000 #00000000 none
menu color cmdline 37;40 #aaaaaaaa #00000000 none
menu color pwdborder 30;47 #ffff0000 #00000000 std
menu color pwdheader 31;47 #ffff0000 #00000000 std
menu color pwdentry 30;47 #ffff0000 #00000000 std
menu color timeout_msg 37;40 #aaaaaaaa #00000000 none
menu color timeout 1;37;40 #ffaaaaff #00000000 none
menu color help 37;40 #aaaaaa00 #00000000 none
menu color msg07 37;40 #90ffffff #00000000 std
MENU TITLE Nimblix
LABEL xconf
MENU LABEL Boot in KDM
KERNEL /boot/syslinux/nimlix/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/boot/syslinux/nimlix/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=7120 root=/dev/ram0 rw quiet vga=791 splash=silent changes=/nimblex/ autoexec=xconf;kdm
LABEL kde
MENU LABEL Boot in KDE
KERNEL /boot/syslinux/nimlix/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/boot/syslinux/nimlix/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=7120 root=/dev/ram0 rw vga=791 splash=silent quiet changes=nimblex.data autoexec=startx
LABEL copy2ram
MENU LABEL Boot in RAM
KERNEL /boot/syslinux/nimlix/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/boot/syslinux/nimlix/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=7120 root=/dev/ram0 rw quiet vga=791 splash toram changes=/nimblex/ autoexec=startx
LABEL cli
MENU LABEL Boot in CLI
KERNEL /boot/syslinux/nimblix/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/boot/syslinux/nimblix/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=7120 root=/dev/ram0 rw
LABEL fresh
MENU LABEL Always Fresh
KERNEL /boot/syslinux/nimblix/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/boot/syslinux/nimblix/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=6666 root=/dev/ram0 rw autoexec=xconf;telinit~4
LABEL kiosk
MENU LABEL Kiosk Mode
KERNEL /boot/syslinux/nimlix/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=/boot/syslinux/nimlix/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=7120 root=/dev/ram0 rw quiet vga=791 splash autoexec=kiosk
LABEL back
MENU LABEL ..
KERNEL /boot/vesamenu.c32
APPEND /boot/menus/main.cfg
TEXT HELP
Back to Main Menu
ENDTEXT
4) Create the directory /boot/syslinux/nimblix in Katana. Copy the vmlinuz-**** and initrd-****.gz files from the Nimblix /boot directory into the newly created directory. Rename them to vmlinuz and initrd.gz respectively.
5) Copy the /nimblix directory from the extracted ISO to the root of Katana.
6) Finally, on the Katana Drive; open /boot/menus/main.cfg in a text editor and add the following to the end of the file. This will add Nimblix to the main boot menu.
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LABEL nimblix
MENU LABEL Nimblix
KERNEL /boot/vesamenu.c32
APPEND /boot/menus/nimblix.cfg
TEXT HELP
More about currently selected:
Nimblix is a minimalistic
distribution based on Slax.
ENDTEXT
You should now be able to boot Nimblix from Katana.
