title: openKylin download address and installation method
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date: 2022-08-01T02:46:12.687Z
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This article describes in detail the two platforms (Windows, Linux) boot disk production methods and three (full installation, dual system, virtual machine) openKylin open source operating system installation tutorial, please read according to their needs selectively.
The first step to install and use openKylin open source operating system is to get the openKylin open source operating system image file, which we can download directly from the openKylin official website.
In the process of reinstalling or installing a system, we all go through the process of making a boot disk, and I'm sure we've read a lot of information to learn. Then by me to give you a summary of the boot disk production several methods. Welcome to take notes.
First of all, they can both be used to create a boot disk, the main function is the same, but Micro PE Toolbox can also create a system CD, Ventoy can not do, in addition, Micro PE Toolbox can also set PE personalized icons, wallpapers and other personalized content.
Ventoy's function is relatively simple, it is mainly used to create system disks, no complicated functions, so its size is also relatively small, if you want to carry around, Ventoy will be more suitable.
In constant experimentation, I got Ventoy to implement all the features of the microPE toolkit! So let's install openkylin with the boot disk creation tool fixed to Ventoy!
First download the boot disk creation tool - ventoy. ventoy is different from other boot disk creation tools, we do not need to repeatedly format the U disk, just copy the image file to the U disk to boot normally, and can allow multiple image files to exist at the same time. ventoy will display a menu for us to choose when booting, very convenient and fast.
Download link: https://www.lanzoui.com/b01bd54gb or https://www.ventoy.net/cn/download.html
## 1. Windows system usage details
Insert the U disk and wait for the download to finish, after the download is done, unzip it, go to the unzip directory, double click to run Ventoy2Disk.exe.
Next, enter the "Boot" screen with the left and right arrow keys, press the up and down arrow keys to select the "Boot Option #1" tab, enter. Select "Boot from USB" as the boot method, i.e. select your USB stick and enter.
Afterward, use the left and right arrow keys to enter the "Save & Exit" screen, select "Save Changes and Exit", and enter. In the pop-up selection box, select "Yes" and enter.
We select "Install openKylin" on the desktop to jump to the installation interface, the system will let us do the language, time zone and configure the user information interface. The following image shows:
Since we are doing a full installation, we will delete the existing partitions, and add partitions after the deletion, first add the root partition, the size I have allocated here is 100G, you can allocate it according to your needs, as follows:
Go to the "Computer Management" page, click on "Storage > Disk Management", select the disk space you want to partition, right-click on the disk, and select "Compress Volume".
The compression window will pop up, enter the amount of space to be compressed, about 135G will be allocated here (it is recommended to allocate at least 30G, if the size is not enough, you can reallocate the disk space to make sure the partition has enough free space and the original partition is big enough). After confirming the amount of space to be compressed, click "Compress".
Next, enter the "Boot" screen with the left and right arrow keys, press the up and down arrow keys to select the "Boot Option #1" tab, enter. Select the boot method to boot from USB, i.e. select your own USB stick, enter.
Afterwards, use the left and right arrow keys to enter the "Save & Exit" screen, select "Save Changes and Exit", and enter. In the pop-up selection box, select "Yes" and enter.
Next, enter the installation configuration page - select the language, time zone and set the user information, you can set it according to your situation.
As you can see, there is already a Windows system on the system, and "free" corresponds to the free partition we just compressed. Since we are installing a dual system, the next thing we need to do is to install the openKylin system in this free partition.
Select the "free" partition - click the "Add" button on the far right to enter the New partition page.
First add the root partition, the size allocated here is 80G, you can allocate it according to your needs, but make sure there is enough space available afterwards, as follows:
Set the default disk size allocated to the virtual machine to 50G, 50G is perfectly sufficient under normal circumstances, you can also adjust it appropriately according to your situation. Select "Split the virtual disk into multiple files" and click Next;
Then you can make a series of settings for memory, processor, etc. in the hardware configuration interface, click the Close button in the lower right corner after the settings are complete, and click Finish after returning to the New Virtual Machine orientation. At this point, you will automatically jump to the boot screen of the virtual machine, click "Open this virtual machine" to start the system installation.
Select the language setting "Chinese (Simplified)" and click Next;
