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I am entering into a Science fair here in my area and I am entering my own OS. I have located a system that I like. It is called Meneut. The site is http://www.menuetos.net/screens.html . I only have ONE problem. I dont want anything related to Meneut to be on the system. I want to totally refresh the whole OS with my name and everything

Are you trying to suggest you want to put your name on MenuetOS and claim you wrote it?

--Jeff

try to learn how those people do things. If I understood right, you cannot do that... try some sources on web. it's hard to programming an O.S but it's amazing when you got things working well like step-by-step, first gdt-idt-memory management. multitasking,
fat12 anything. isn't peasure you copy somebody's source code and say that is yours, man please if I understood you wrong, forgive me....

you did misundertsnad him, he wrote that he wants to rewrite the OS, without using it's code..

In this case, unfortunately, the best way to learn about the OS is probably not the best for your purposes (namely, reading the source code).

Otherwise, I'd suggesting doing like everyone else on this board does -- research as many OSs and OS Designs as possible, learn all the different techniques used for multitasking, memory management, timers, etc, etc, and decide upon how you want to write your OS.

However, given that you apparently plan to enter this into a science fair, I seriously doubt you've given yourself enough time... developing an OS takes years, especially if by only one person. It's not an easy task.

Cheers,
Jeff

examining the source for learning, will be especially difficult within the time frame since minuet is written in entirely in ASM, (which is more difficult to read -- especially if you are unfamilier with it)