Installing PLD
How to install our Linux distro?
Minimal hardware requirements
Before you start, please notice that minimum hardware you
need is 386 machine with at least 16MB of memory. At
least 32MB of swap + memory when installing RPMs. 50MB
on harddrive for base installation.
How to get installer?
There are couple of ways to install PLD.
CD-ROM. You can get CD with good
computer magazine or by downloading images from
network and burn the CD yourself.
ISO images are located on
FTP,
in directory
/iso/current/[arch]/*.iso.
There are several images, if you want
to install full system, you must get
all of them, if you need only basic
installation, get *-base.iso file.
Network. If you have good connection to
Internet, you can install PLD directly
from network. All you need is to download
image file and make floppy bootdisk.
Image files are located on FTP,
in directory
/current/[arch]/PLD/images.
You have to download
bootdisk_net.img
file if you use standard ISA, PCI
network cards, or
bootdisk_pcmcia.img,
if you plan to use PCMCIA NIC. PCMCIA
bootdisk requires also
addons1.img
image, it contains, beside other things,
low level pcmcia drivers.
Harddrive. The image is the same as
above, with the exception of
installing from
SCSI hardrive, which requires getting
bootdisk_scsi.img
file. This bootdisk requires also
addons2.imgimage,
it contains, beside other things,
low level scsi drivers.
If you use CD-ROM, you get bootable disk; set CD drive
as first boot device in computer BIOS, and start the
system.
If you want to use network or harddrive, you must make
bootable floppy disk, and start the system from floppy
drive. All our bootdisks fit on standard 3 & 1/2 inches
floppy disk.
It is likely that you will need supplemental disks. Cases
when you need addons*.img are:
installing from SCSI
disk/cdrom (addons2.img),
installing from network using
tokenring, arcnet, or gigabit
ethernet device (addons1.img),
installing from PCMCIA device
(network adapter, SCSI card
etc) (addons1.img),
installing from network using
2.4 kernel and ethernet module
not listed here: 3c59x.o,
8139too.o, dmfe.o, eepro100.o,
ne.o, ne2k-pci.o, pcnet32.o.
(addons1.img)
Images may be written to diskette with:
cat bootdisk_image >/dev/fd0
On Win* systems you can also create boot diskette using
rawrite.exe utility, located on
FTP, in directory
/current/[arch]/PLD/dosutils.
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&wizard;
&unattended;
&serial-port;