Project Flying Cat

A modular, lua-based operating system project based on Return Infinity BareMetal OS

This project includes code from Return Infinity, namely BareMetal OS and the Pure64 bootloader. Without the hard work of Ian Seyler, this project would not have been possible.

Building Flying Cat

The following software is required to successfully build Flying Cat:

• NASM (Assembler)
• GCC (C compiler)
• LD (linker)
• mkfs (creates filesystem)
• mkfs.vfat (fat for mkfs)
• GRUB (bootloader)
• sudo (the build script can be edited to remove the sudo dependency, however it then must be run as root)
• Make

Additionally, your system must support loopback devices and some parts of the build.sh build script require superuser privileges.

Running Flying Cat

Flying Cat is built as a floppy disk image which can be run in a Virtual Machine, or written to a physical floppy disk to be booted from.

Naturally, any VM software should be able to run Flying Cat, although the included run.sh script is designed for QEMU.

You should be able to get a boot going in QEMU by simply running:

$ ./run.sh

Otherwise you want to run build.sh and manually mount the image in VM of choice, other Virtual Machines include Virtualbox and VMWare, note however that Flying Cat has not been tested in these.

Should you be unable to compile it yourself, you can use the precompiled floppy.img included in the source, note however, that this might not be the most recent build.