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