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   1 Brief Installation Instructions (Binary Package)
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   3
   4 This is rEFInd, an EFI boot manager. The binary package includes the
   5 following files and subdirectories:
   6
   7    File                             Description
   8    -----------------------------    -----------------------------
   9    refind/refind_ia32.efi           The main IA32 rEFInd binary
  10    refind/refind_x64.efi            The main x86-64 rEFInd binary
  11    refind/refind.conf-sample        A sample configuration file
  12    refind/icons/                    Subdirectory containing icons
  13    README.txt                       This file
  14    LICENSE.txt                      The original rEFIt license
  15    COPYING.txt                      The rEFInd license
  16    docs/                            Documentation in HTML format
  17
  18 To install the binary package, you must first access your EFI System
  19 Partition (ESP). You can then place the files from the refind subdirectory
  20 in a subdirectory of the ESP's EFI directory. You may omit the .efi binary
  21 for the type of computer you're NOT using, and you may optionally rename
  22 the .efi file for the binary you are using. If this is an initial
  23 installation, you should rename refind.conf-sample to refind.conf; but if
  24 you're replacing an existing installation, you should leave your existing
  25 refind.conf intact. The end result might include the following files on the
  26 ESP:
  27
  28  EFI/refind/refind_x64.efi
  29  EFI/refind/refind.conf
  30  EFI/refind/icons/
  31
  32 Unfortunately, dropping the files in the ESP is not sufficient; as
  33 described in the docs/installing.html file, you must also tell your EFI
  34 about rEFInd. Precisely how to do this varies with your OS or, if you
  35 choose to do it through the EFI, your EFI implementation. In some cases you
  36 may need to rename the EFI/refind directory as EFI/boot, and rename
  37 refind_x86.efi to bootx64.efi (or refind_ia32.efi to bootia32.efi on 32-bit
  38 systems). Consult the installing.html file for full details.
  39
  40 Brief Installation Instructions (Source Package)
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  42
  43 rEFInd source code can be obtained from
  44 https://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/. Consult the BUILDING.txt file in
  45 the source code package for build instructions. Once  you've built the
  46 source code, you should duplicate the directory tree described above by
  47 copying the individual files and the icons directory to the ESP.