Help entry on system and installation

[rdstern]

In the proposed (and existing) help file I have a section on Getting Started
Within this, the first entry is:

System and Installation

Now I know that most people will have installed R-Instat, or they wouldn't have access to the help. But:

a) They may be helping others, who have trouble installing.
b) We can easily produce the whole help as (say) pdf, so it can be made available independently of the installation.
c) Once installed I would like all the guides to be available through the help menu, possibly as pdf files. We already have a guide on installation. So I would like to link to this guide (and later the others) in the help system.

Anyway what should I be saying in this section? It is also where I would like to say what is possible in Linux and mac. I haven't got far. Please edit or add to this thread to complete this:

So far:
**R-Instat is currently only for Windows machines. If you have Linux or a Mac, then you need to install a virtual Windows machine. This is not difficult and ...

On Windows systems, R-Instat may be installed on Windows 7, 8 or 10. :**

[dannyparsons]

How about this?

R-Instat is currently only for Windows machines running Windows 7 or above.

If you have Linux or a Mac, then you can install a virtual Windows machine to use R-Instat. There is free software for creating virtual machines, for example VirtualBox https://www.virtualbox.org/ and free virtual Windows files available from Microsoft https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/. See our Running R-Instat on a Virtual Machine guide (does this exist?) for more information.

[maxwellfundi]

@dannyparsons that sounds good. We currently dont have the Virtual Machine installation guide. I can try make that at some point so that it can be included here.

[rdstern]

Now we have our course starting in Cameroon in 2 weeks time, I will be writing to their IT guy this week - need to find who he/she is first. And this will be useful then. Maybe they can help?