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= How to install Amahi =
Step 1: Copy the Amahi ''rootfs'Prepare your disk.''' image into an empty USB hard drive Connect your media (usb disk, USB flash drive, or SD card )into a working Linux machine and open your preferred partitioning software (Gparted, fdisk,etc). Partition and format the drive with your file system of choice (depending ext2,ext3,etc), the usual warnings apply all data will be lost. If a swap partition is desired (highly recommended for the Dockstar)leave up to 512MB available, and format as Linux swap. Next, download the [http://dl.amahi.org/marvell/create-clean-f12-disk.sh script] and [http://dl.amahi.org/marvell/amahi-marvell-0.8.tar.bz2 Image] to the disk. Run the script and it will give a warning to edit the script to match your drive designation. This is what your disk is on what the current machine (i.e. sdb1,sdc1), care should be taken here to correctly identify the disk or you could wipe the wrong disk. Now run the script and it will automagically prepare your disk. Step 2: '''Boot''' the device supports)with your newly created disk attached. Give it a few minutes to boot, and it will be ready for the Amahi installation.
Step 2: Boot your device using the drive / card you created. Step 3: '''Install Amahi.'''