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useronce

Aug 25 2007, 10:36 PM

Hello everybody, i'd like to share you with this another funny toolkits for PC's multiboot software.
Yes, this is another attempt for me to the multiboot field just after avldr, avlgo, isoemu. ^)^
O.K. Let's start the conventional verbal exchange for software relese:

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　　Aero Studio 2007 is a graphic multiboot menu designing platform, including a designing-IDE and a runtime program. It is something like the EasyBoot, but more powerful than Ezboot, because it supports booting from both CD-ROM and Harddisk using a fashion UI, loading linux kernel directly and more. Since you've gotten tired of the black and white boot screen, why not try Aero? The specialties:

* One-Time Design, Multi-Type Deploy

By using Aero Studio, you can use any favorite images as the menu background; by using the 'Button Control', 'Picture Control', 'Static Control' and the 'Progress Control', you can design the menu more profession. And these designations, you could deploy them to any partition, or the MBR(s), or the iso images. So that, it makes you get things done easier and faster!

* Multiple Bootstrap Programs and Disk-Image supported

Aero supports not only the Bootsectors, FDD-Image, HDD-Image - even using gz/zip compressed - to start your PC, but also the ISO-Image.

* Powerful Graphic Supports and Multi Images Format Supports

Png/Gif/Bmp/Jpg/Tga are all supported. When you design within the Aero Studio, you may feel using a WYSWYG web designer - simple and efficient. When you generate the Aero menu, it will automatically generate the right images to display at runtime.

* Quick-Preview in Web Page

If you want to preview the design or share your idea with your friends, the "Export to web" makes you achieve this faster and easier.

* Qemu-Inside, Design to Runtime Faster Than Ever

Aero Studio can dynamically generate the command line to test you designation using the build-in qemu.

The official site: http://www.znpc.net/aerostudio/
download from: http://www.znpc.net/aerostudio/?page_id=4

here is a demo topic for aero studio: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=20108

here is the official snapshoot:

useronce

Aug 25 2007, 10:50 PM

addition information:

1. I have not finished the chm-format help, so you can try to use it, and contact me for using help;

2. Aerosmgr.exe has bcdw/grub4dos/isoemu/memdisk inside. so you use some commands like:

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bcdw (cd)/images/xpe.bin
grub4dos kernel (hd0,0)/kernel.dat quiet vga=788 ramdisk_size=40000;initrd (hd0,0)/ramdisk.dat /s
isoemu (hd0,0)/mydos.iso
run (hd0,0)/images/dosme.imz

3. a typical workflow of using is:

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* set the background image of your menu;
* design the menu item: you can use 'button control', 'picture control', and 'static control' as a menu item, and set its propertities, including the command lines.
* include a progress control in your designation if you want;
* export your desination to web pages, if you like;
* create menu from your designation;
* depoly your menu(s) to media: a iso image file, or a partition of your local hard disk;
* using media to test in a virtual machine.
* if everything is OK, great job has been done!

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Wish you like it, and enjoy!

bengt

Aug 26 2007, 08:06 AM

Hi, nice work, looks good
exe-download works fine but...
I am trying to download the zip-file and keep getting a 404-error page

useronce

Aug 26 2007, 08:46 AM

QUOTE (bengt @ Aug 26 2007, 01:06 PM)

Hi, nice work, looks good
exe-download works fine but...
I am trying to download the zip-file and keep getting a 404-error page

I've corrected the .zip error. 6_6

the help files of aero studio is not ready, so, we can discuss the usage here. I'm ready for any question.
Although the CHS version has a chm file, but it is a hard work to do a translation.

bengt

Aug 26 2007, 09:50 AM

Link to zip file is now working, thanks

Daemonforce

Aug 26 2007, 10:30 AM

Uhmm....I use CD Shell as my boot handler. What does this program mean to me?

pavel

Aug 26 2007, 12:45 PM

Hi,

i have some problem. I created 2 buttons (boot 1st hdd, boot 2nd hdd), i generated menu (File - Generate menu), but i can not make a "deploy menu" (File - Deploy menu). The problem is with error popup dialog:

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There is no default menu selected, please retry.

I have no idea what to do...

Best regards,
Pavel

useronce

Aug 26 2007, 08:14 PM

QUOTE (pavel @ Aug 26 2007, 05:45 PM)

Hi,

i have some problem. I created 2 buttons (boot 1st hdd, boot 2nd hdd), i generated menu (File - Generate menu), but i can not make a "deploy menu" (File - Deploy menu). The problem is with error popup dialog:

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There is no default menu selected, please retry.

I have no idea what to do...

Best regards,
Pavel

here, you must see the list of your menus in the deploying dialog. just you notice, there is no default menu selected, so, please double-click
a menu icon at the menu list, you will get the next page for deploying to a media.

BTW. a demo video that shows how to use aerostudio is in my plan. ^)^

pavel

Aug 27 2007, 09:29 AM

Hi useronce,

I can see the menu icon. I only used "single" click to choose it. Using doubleclick (as you helped me) works correct.

Best regards,
Pavel

pavel

Aug 27 2007, 09:39 AM

Another Q here. I created 2 buttons for booting of 1st and 2nd HDD. I created menu and try to deploy menu. How to deploy it to make an iso file? I can not understand what i have to fill in "source files" and "target name".

Yours program looks very well. The help is missing and needed.

Pavel

paraglider

Aug 27 2007, 06:03 PM

Source FIles is the directory containing the deployed menu ( c:\Program Files\Aeromgr\Air Menus ). Target name is iso that will be created that starts the menu.

useronce

Aug 27 2007, 08:47 PM

QUOTE (pavel @ Aug 27 2007, 02:39 PM)

Another Q here. I created 2 buttons for booting of 1st and 2nd HDD. I created menu and try to deploy menu. How to deploy it to make an iso file? I can not understand what i have to fill in "source files" and "target name".

Yours program looks very well. The help is missing and needed.

Pavel

Thanks!

and the source directory is the place where your files included in your target iso image file. here, you can assume this is a directory that contains the system installation files. at the same time, you can put two or more i386 directories, we can use md5 to optimize. - as a trick, you can use an empty directory as the source.

so, the target name is just the iso image file name.

useronce

Aug 27 2007, 08:50 PM

QUOTE (paraglider @ Aug 27 2007, 11:03 PM)

Source FIles is the directory containing the deployed menu ( c:\Program Files\Aeromgr\Air Menus ). Target name is iso that will be created that starts the menu.

yes but not exactly. the real usage has been mentioned above.

paraglider

Aug 28 2007, 06:30 AM

That did not work for me - I pointed it at the output directories from pebuilder and no iso file got generated.

On the 'Media For Deploy' dialog could you allow the two Source Files / Target Name text boxes to be directly editable so I can enter path information directly without using the browse button.

Also 'Start Depoly' should say 'Start Deploy'.

I also find it confusing to have both a 'Start Deploy' and a Finish button. Many times I hit Finish instead of 'Start Deploy' and have to do the Deploy again.

Also the 3 checkboxes have invalid captions ( o Iso Imange, o Partition, o MBR ). It looks like the T is missing as I presume they should say To. This may be a sizing issue on Vista - try increasing the width of the checkbox control.

pavel

Aug 29 2007, 01:31 AM

@useronce

Hi, i have to say your program is amazing. It looks and works well. I finished my ISO with your help. Another Q here: is it possible to make any command for power off? Could you integrate cdshell into it?

Best regards,
Pavel

bartonexdu

Sep 15 2007, 12:51 AM

QUOTE (Daemonforce @ Aug 26 2007, 11:30 PM)

Uhmm....I use CD Shell as my boot handler. What does this program mean to me?

@Gandalf & useronce

Maybe you should consider combination cdshell in aeromgr (bcdw.gz grub4dos.gz isoemu.gz memdisk.gz and cdshell.gz

Another suggestion , add an iso burn tool (prefer tools with GPL).

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As i know , some same type tools, like The_gui http://members.chello.at/bobby100/

The tool based on mkisofs 、readcd、 cdrecord, the parameter of mkisofs is very rich for us to choose. After specify bootsect file , hit "make batch". we can get a batch file to see how mkisofs create a bootable cd.If we want adjust , it is a piece of cake

. The following thing is build and burn.
ps: i have change the version of mkisofs which now supports gbk and md5 optimize

iso generator (deepin简易iso生成器 by cgistar）

It based on mkisofs、 cdimage 、qemu、 cd-burn and dvd-burn. We can use it to create bootable cd or dvd, test the iso with qemu. If all done , we can burn it . But it did not supply rich parameter to choose .

They have its own advantages and disadvantages, i hope aeromgr can absorb some advantages from them.

google

Oct 6 2007, 04:19 AM

Download links are not working anymore and the site is very very slow

google

Oct 6 2007, 06:32 AM

I finally download it, it looks great, but what is the command for running a gz file with memdisk ? All my images are in images folder. I tried to run it like this: memdisk (cd)/images/test.gz but it's not working (unrecognized command).This is working: bcdw (cd)/images/test.img but of course only for .img files.

jaclaz

Oct 6 2007, 06:50 AM

QUOTE (google @ Oct 6 2007, 01:32 PM)

I finally download it, it looks great, but what is the command for running a gz file with memdisk ? All my images are in images folder. I tried to run it like this: memdisk (cd)/images/test.gz but it's not working (unrecognized command).This is working: bcdw (cd)/images/test.img but of course only for .img files.

The syntax should be the same as grub4dos one

:
http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...c=19585&hl=

using the "kernel" and "initrd" commands.

jaclaz

jaclaz

Oct 6 2007, 06:50 AM

QUOTE (google @ Oct 6 2007, 01:32 PM)

I finally download it, it looks great, but what is the command for running a gz file with memdisk ? All my images are in images folder. I tried to run it like this: memdisk (cd)/images/test.gz but it's not working (unrecognized command).This is working: bcdw (cd)/images/test.img but of course only for .img files.

The syntax should be similar to grub4dos one

:
http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...c=19585&hl=

using the "kernel" and "initrd" commands.
but cannot say how actually they should be inserted, maybe

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memdisk initrd=(cd)/images/test.gz ??

or

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memdisk initrd (cd)/images/test.gz ??

jaclaz

google

Oct 6 2007, 08:31 AM

It does not work either way, same error "unrecognized command".

Ed_P

Oct 6 2007, 11:48 AM

QUOTE (google @ Oct 6 2007, 09:31 AM)

It does not work either way, same error "unrecognized command".

Do you have memdisk on your hd? If so what is the path to it?

pavel

Nov 3 2007, 12:35 PM

Is there a way to deploy menu to usb? I have the sd card with usb port (like flash disk), generated menu. I try to deploy it to my usb sd card, using "mbr, hd 1" on the right down corner in Aero Studio. The error appears "does not support yet". Any way...?

Pavel

bartonexdu

Jan 19 2008, 03:12 AM

@Pavel

After chinese new years, useronce will update aero studio, the problem you mentioned above has been discussed in chinese forum, hope new aero studio will give us perfect solution for flash disk and meantime solve some bugs.

pavel

Nov 30 2008, 12:01 PM

QUOTE (bartonexdu @ Jan 19 2008, 09:12 AM)

@Pavel

After chinese new years, useronce will update aero studio, the problem you mentioned above has been discussed in chinese forum, hope new aero studio will give us perfect solution for flash disk and meantime solve some bugs.

I am very keen on use Aero on USB. This is an amazing SW.

Any information about deploying it to USB?

Best regards,
Paul