Getting Started - Setting Up Your ITX-Llama

The following set of guides aim to help you set up an operating system on your ITX-Llama.

MS-DOS Installation

See MS-DOS Setup Guide

Windows 98 Installation

See Windows 98 Setup Guide

FreeDOS SD Card Image (pre-loaded)

  1. Purchase an SD card from Retrodreams.ca preloaded with FreeDOS.
  2. Check out this README
  3. Insert the SD Card into your ITX-Llama and enjoy!

DOS Drivers

  • ctmouse.exe - The venerable FreeDOS Mouse Driver - CTMouse! (v2.1b)
  • pmouse.com - A smaller, lighter sometimes more compatible alternative to CTMouse
  • r6040dos.zip - (Optional) an R6040 Ethernet NDIS driver for DOS and Windows 3.1.

Windows 98 Drivers

Audio Setup

For Windows 98/3.1/DOS, in order to get the proper sound setup (including mt32-pi/dreamblaster/OPL) be sure to install the crystal drivers onto your system, then add the following to the autoexec.bat (even on Windows 98):

SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T5 P330
C:\CRYSTAL\CWDMIX /M=13,13 /W=13,13 /L=13,13 /X=1 /F=13,13 /C=13,13 /I=L

This should resolve any audio issues, including optical out problems. Be aware the dreamblaster and mt32-pi are configured to come in as "line-in", so use that slider to adjust their volumes.

Boot Managers

While there are many boot managers that are available to use, in some configurations (specifically booting from SSD first, then MicroSD), please consider using the boot manager that is included with xfdisk.exe as part of the Windows 98 Setup VFD included with the BIOS. The author of this section had tested about 6 different boot managers, and this was the only one that was able to work correctly.

Tools

  • cwdmix.exe - DOS Utility for setting mixer levels for the Crystal 4237b sound chip.
  • anybios.exe - DOS Utility for flashing the ITX Llama system BIOS.
  • slowdown.zip - DOS Utility for slowing the CPU down even further than the lowest clock selectable in BIOS.
  • Large Drive Support w/Tools (tbplus) - Allows Windows 98SE to use hard drives larger than 1TB. (Full TBPlus Pack including DOS partitioning tools)

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