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>6. Boot the machine and start the installation program</H1
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> In this chapter we will find out how to get the installation
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program up and running.
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>6.1. A note on partitions</H2
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> Below we will be asked about what partitions to make. We
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should have at least these partitions:
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> A PReP partition. It should be the first primary partition
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on one of the SCSI drives, preferably the first (this
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naming the partition to sda1). It must have type PReP boot
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(type 41), and must be large enough to
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hold a compressed Linux kernel image (zImage). Something like
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5-10MB should do.
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> A swap partition. It can be either a primary or a logical
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partition on any drive. Any size will do, but a guide may
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be twice the size of you physical RAM. I have 64MB RAM, so
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I have a swap partition on 128MB.
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> A system root partition. It can be either a primary or a
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logical partition, and it should be big enough to hold the
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main parts of the installation. You should write down the
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device (disk and partition number, like sda5, for example)
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for your system's root partition. You will need it later.
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The easy way is just to use the rest of the harddisk space
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for this. If you have several harddisks, big drives or
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special requirements on safety and other things, you
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should consider to make own partitions for /home, /usr,
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/usr/local, and other parts of the system. Details on this
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is outside the scope of this document, but there is a
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good discussion on this in the Linux Partition HOWTO.
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> You may of course add as many other partitions to your
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system as you may wish, but this is the very minimum.
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> It is a <EM
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>VERY</EM
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> good tip to find a piece
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of paper and write down which partitions you have made, what
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you want to use them to, and where you want to mount
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them. You will need this information later.
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> For Debian and SuSE, we will use the
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<EM
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>cfdisk</EM
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> program for partitioning. For
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those unfamiliar with cfdisk and partitioning in general, I
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have made two small appendices on this, just because I am a
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very kind person. See <A
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>Section 15</A
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>6.2. Boot the machine and start the installer</H2
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> To boot the 7248, just insert the boot floppy and turn the
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machine on. If it won't boot off the floppy drive, check SMS settings
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(<A
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>Section 3</A
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>), and try to force a floppy boot
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by pressing F5 (or F6) at the bootscreen while the check icons pop
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up in the bottom of the screen. After a while, the screen blanks
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out, and Linux will boot. At this point, you can shout a little
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"hooray" for yourself, if there are not too many in the room,
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and Tux, the Linux Penguin will show up in the upper left corner
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of the screen. Insert the ramdisk floppies when prompted.
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NAME="DEBIAN-INSTALLER"
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>6.3. The Debian installer</H2
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> You should just walk through the Debian installer like you
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would on any Debian installation. More information on how to
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use the installer can be found at your favourite Debian mirror,
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a good reference should be
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<A
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HREF="http://www.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/doc/install.en.html"
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>this document</A
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You would maybe
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<A
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>start here</A
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as you already have been walked through the preliminary steps.
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There are a few thing to remember though:
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Not all keyboard layouts are availble in the
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installer. Pick one you are able to use. We will have
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more to choose from once the system is installed.</P
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> At the "Partition a Hard Disk" step, our
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partition program will be cfdisk. At this step we have to
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add the PReP partition as mentioned above, a swap
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partition and a root partition. Remember to write down
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on a piece of paper what partition to use for the root
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filesystem. Unless you have a really good memory, of
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course.</P
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> The steps "Install Kernel and Driver Modules", "Configure
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Device Driver modules", "Configure PCMCIA Support", and
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"Install Foreign Modules" can be skipped, as all necessary
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driver are compiled into the boot floppy kernel.</P
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> When installing the base system, we can choose either
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network or cdrom. Both should work. (I have even installed
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by floppy once, but this is something we really don't want
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to do.)</P
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> Skip the steps "Make System bootable" and "Make a Boot
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Floppy" - they won't work. See the later chapter <A
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make the system boot from the harddisk.</P
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> No bootloader will be installed, as there are no
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availble bootloader for the PReP PPC platform (except
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the one that's piggybacked onto the kernel). After the
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installation is done, you will therefore have to boot
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again from a floppy. See the next chapter for details.
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> When you are finished installing the base system, reinsert
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the boot floppy and choose "Reboot the system".
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>6.4. The SuSE installer</H2
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> The SuSE installer should work without any hassle at all.
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Prelimenary, I've only done ftp install, but any installation
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method should do, provided you have access to the media. I
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have not been able to find an online version of the
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installation instructions, but it should be quite
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strightforward. If you have bought the boxed set, you have
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probably got a printed manual on dead trees. A few things to
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look up for anyhow:
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> When partition the hard disks, remember to make a PReP
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boot partition as described above. As a general rule,
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use /dev/sda1 for this.
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> If we're doing a ftp install, use the following path
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from a SuSE mirror root: suse/ppc/current/. An European
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mirror is available at <EM
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>194.71.11.20</EM
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>
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(ftp.sunet.se) in
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/pub/Linux/distributions/suse/suse/ppc/current/ . An
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American mirror is availble at
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<EM
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>140.221.9.138</EM
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> (mirror.mcs.anl.gov)
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in /pub/ftp.suse.com/ppc/current/ . <A
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TARGET="_top"
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> There is a list of other mirrors here</A
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> The download progress bar is broken on slow links, so
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we don't care about it unless we're connected to a fat
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pipe. Have patience.
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> When the installation is finished, we may get a blank
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screen with nothing but a blinking cursor. Ensure that the
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installation is done (check for availble shells or status
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screens at VT2, 3 and 4. by pressing Alt+F2,F3,F4,F1,
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there should be none). Reinsert the boot
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floppy and power-cycle the box.
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> No bootloader will be installed, as there are no
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availble bootloader for the PReP PPC platform (except
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the one that's piggybacked onto the kernel). After the
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installation is done, you will therefore have to boot
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again from a floppy. See the next chapter for details.
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</P
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>6.5. The Yellow Dog installer</H2
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> Just before the installer starts, I have added a small
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pre-installation routine. Please follow the on-screen
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instrucions. For someone who has done some sysadmin earlier,
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the steps should be quite easy. For the beginner, it should
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not be to difficult. Hop to a virtual terminal by hitting
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to partition your first scsi harddisk. Change to sdb for your
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second, and so on. If you think this is a little difficult,
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I've written a small appendix on this <A
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>. When done partitioning, run
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for example
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to make an ext2 filesystem on your third partition on your
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first hard disk. When you are finished, hop back to the main
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screen by hitting Alt+F1, and press enter to continue
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> You should walk through the installer as you would walk
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through any Yellow Dog installation (though only text-based
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interface is availble). I have not found any comprehensive
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online installation manual, but there is <A
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HREF="http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/installation/guide.shtml"
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TARGET="_top"
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> some info here</A
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>. If you have bought a boxed set, you should
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open the box and Read The Fine Manual if you have questions not
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answered here.
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> There are a few things to look out
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for, though:
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> At the "Installing Profile Selection" screen (one of the first
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screens), choose "Custom".
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> At the "Installation Setup" screen, only "Local CD/DVD" is
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availble, so we'll have to choose ... well, you guessed it.
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> At the "Partition Disks" screen, we "Edit" each disk, but just
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choose "Save" in the subscreens. "Add" and "Delete" won't
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work. And besides, we already have done this, haven't we?
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> At the "Package Selection" screen, choose "Base Install",
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unless you have a full CD set. The downloadable CD image
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has only the base install packages.
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> At the "Sound Setup" screen, we'll get an error message
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saying we are not one of those lucky bastards owning a Power
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Macintosh computer. As this is something we should be
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ashamed of. Ignore, sniff, and select "Ok". We'll fix
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sound later.
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</P
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> At the "PReP Bootloader Installation" screen, the
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installer yells that it can't find a PReP partition. A
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little strange, as we just made one. (We did, remember
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to do that, didn't we?). This installer just can't get
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it, so continue to ignore it. Select "Ok".
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> The "X11 Configuration" screen just flips by, so I
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guess that part was painless. Yeah, right.
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><LI
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> No bootloader will be installed, as there are no
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availble bootloader for the PReP PPC platform (except
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the one that's piggybacked onto the kernel). After the
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installation is done, you will therefore have to boot
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again from a floppy. See the next chapter for details.
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</P
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></LI
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>6.6. The Mandrake installer</H2
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> For the Mandrake installer, there are a few quite extensive
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prerequisites necessary. For a CD install, we need to replace
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the installer program on the first CD before burning out the CD
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ISO image. For a network install, we need a complete local ftp
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or http mirror, made from the Mandrake Bamboo ppc ftp
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directory, or the three CDs. Actually, we only need to replace
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one single file, but because the installer is unable to
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change package source during the installation (this is one
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reason why Debian is a wonderful distribution), we need
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local copies of all the files.
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> If we don't like to hazzle around and tune things, we'll stick
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to the CD installation. It's the easiest.
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>6.6.1. CD installation</H3
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> First we have to download the three Mandrake ISO images from
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your favourite mirror. There exist ppc ISO images at least
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at a Sweedish mirror at <A
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HREF="ftp://ftp.chello.se/pub/linux/Mandrake-iso/ppc/"
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> ftp://ftp.chello.se/pub/linux/Mandrake-iso/ppc/</A
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> Then we must change the first image by replacing the
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installer inside it. This could be done on any operating
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system able to mount a CD ISO image. The instructions below
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are made for running on RedHat Linux. We presume the images are
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all put in /var/tmp.
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space, eg. /var/tmp, and unmount the image again:
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BORDER="1"
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BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
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WIDTH="100%"
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><TR
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><TD
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><FONT
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COLOR="#000000"
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><PRE
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CLASS="SCREEN"
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>mkdir /var/tmp/bamboo1
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cp -va /mnt/cdrom/* /var/tmp/bamboo1
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umount /mnt/cdrom</PRE
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></FONT
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></TD
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></TR
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></TABLE
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>
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Now replace the installer image:
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<TABLE
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BORDER="1"
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BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
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WIDTH="100%"
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><TR
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><TD
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><FONT
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COLOR="#000000"
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><PRE
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CLASS="SCREEN"
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>cd /var/tmp/bamboo1/Mandrake/base
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rm mdkinst_stage2.bz2
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wget http://users.linpro.no/ingvar/43p/images/Mandrake/mdkinst_stage2.bz2</PRE
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></FONT
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></TD
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></TR
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></TABLE
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>
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Finally rebuild the installer image and, if you want, remove
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the local copy of the cd contents:
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<TABLE
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BORDER="1"
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BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
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WIDTH="100%"
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><TR
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><TD
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><FONT
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COLOR="#000000"
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><PRE
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CLASS="SCREEN"
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>cd /var/tmp
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mkisofs -r -o MandrakeLinux-9.1-CD1.ppc.iso bamboo1/
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rm -rf bamboo1</PRE
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></FONT
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></TD
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></TABLE
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>
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There. You now have a set of three working ISO images for
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the 7248. Burn them out on CDs. Then insert the boot floppy
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into the 7248 and turn the computer on. Disk-Jockey the
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ramdisk floppy when prompted. Just do a normal CD
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installation. See the installer notes below for details.
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</P
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></DIV
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><DIV
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CLASS="SECT3"
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><H3
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CLASS="SECT3"
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><A
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NAME="MDK-NETWORK"
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></A
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>6.6.2. Network installation</H3
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><P
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> First you need a local http or ftp mirror with a patched
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installer. This means that you need access to another
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computer able to run a web or ftp server. Any Linux
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distribution can do. A modern Windows or UNIX server should
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also be able to do the job. The trick is to download all
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necessary files, and change the installer file
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Mandrake/base/mdkinst_stage2.bz with a patched one. Below
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the the steps to get this done with the Apache web server on
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a RedHat Linux installtion, and with the CD iso image files,
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is described. (A complete download of the ppc archive from a
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Mandrake ftp mirror should work allright too, but I prefer
|
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to have the iso images availble.)
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</P
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><P
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> Unless already done, install and start the Apache web server
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on the system. This is described in the RedHat
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documentation. Then download the three Mandrake CD images
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from your favourite mirror. There exist ppc iso images at
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least at a Sweedish mirror at <A
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HREF="ftp://ftp.chello.se/pub/linux/Mandrake-iso/ppc/"
|
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TARGET="_top"
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> ftp://ftp.chello.se/pub/linux/Mandrake-iso/ppc/</A
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>.
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<TABLE
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BORDER="1"
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BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
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WIDTH="100%"
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><TR
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><TD
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><FONT
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COLOR="#000000"
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><PRE
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CLASS="SCREEN"
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>cd /somwhere/with/plenty/space
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wget ftp://your.favourite.mirror/path/to/MandrakeLinux-9.1-CD1.ppc.iso
|
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wget ftp://your.favourite.mirror/path/to/MandrakeLinux-9.1-CD2.ppc.iso
|
|
wget ftp://your.favourite.mirror/path/to/MandrakeLinux-9.1-CD3.ppc.iso</PRE
|
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></FONT
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></TD
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></TR
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></TABLE
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>
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Mount the images via the loopback interface:
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<TABLE
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BORDER="1"
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BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
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WIDTH="100%"
|
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><TR
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><TD
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><FONT
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COLOR="#000000"
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><PRE
|
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CLASS="SCREEN"
|
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>mkdir /mnt/bamboo1 /mnt/bamboo2 /mnt/bamboo3 /var/www/html/bamboo
|
|
mount -o loop=/dev/loop1 MandrakeLinux-9.1-CD1.ppc.iso /mnt/bamboo1
|
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mount -o loop=/dev/loop2 MandrakeLinux-9.1-CD2.ppc.iso /mnt/bamboo2
|
|
mount -o loop=/dev/loop3 MandrakeLinux-9.1-CD3.ppc.iso /mnt/bamboo3
|
|
cd -</PRE
|
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></FONT
|
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></TD
|
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></TR
|
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></TABLE
|
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>
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|
Copy the base files, and symlink the package
|
|
directories, to a directory availble for the web server:
|
|
|
|
<TABLE
|
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BORDER="1"
|
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BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
|
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WIDTH="100%"
|
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><TR
|
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><TD
|
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><FONT
|
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COLOR="#000000"
|
|
><PRE
|
|
CLASS="SCREEN"
|
|
>for i in base mdkinst share; do
|
|
cp -va /mnt/bamboo1/Mandrake/$i /var/www/html/bamboo/Mandrake; done
|
|
ln -s /mnt/bamboo1/Mandrake/RPMS1 /var/www/html/bamboo/Mandrake
|
|
ln -s /mnt/bamboo2/Mandrake/RPMS2 /var/www/html/bamboo/Mandrake
|
|
ln -s /mnt/bamboo3/Mandrake/RPMS3 /var/www/html/bamboo/Mandrake</PRE
|
|
></FONT
|
|
></TD
|
|
></TR
|
|
></TABLE
|
|
>
|
|
|
|
Finally add my patched version of the installer image.
|
|
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|
<TABLE
|
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BORDER="1"
|
|
BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
|
|
WIDTH="100%"
|
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><TR
|
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><TD
|
|
><FONT
|
|
COLOR="#000000"
|
|
><PRE
|
|
CLASS="SCREEN"
|
|
>cd /var/www/html/bamboo/Mandrake/base
|
|
mv mdkinst_stage2.bz2 mdkinst_stage2.orig.bz2
|
|
wget http://users.linpro.no/ingvar/43p/images/Mandrake/mdkinst_stage2.bz2
|
|
cd -</PRE
|
|
></FONT
|
|
></TD
|
|
></TR
|
|
></TABLE
|
|
>
|
|
|
|
You should now have a working local http mirror of the
|
|
Mandrake installation files. Now boot with the boot floppy,
|
|
and insert the ramdisk floppy when prompted. From the
|
|
installation menus, select network install, select http and
|
|
then give the address of the server where you just downloaded the
|
|
files. The http directory from the example above is "/bamboo"
|
|
|
|
</P
|
|
></DIV
|
|
><DIV
|
|
CLASS="SECT3"
|
|
><H3
|
|
CLASS="SECT3"
|
|
><A
|
|
NAME="MDK-INSTALLER"
|
|
></A
|
|
>6.6.3. Installer notes</H3
|
|
><P
|
|
> You will get an error when probing for a network and scsi
|
|
drivers. The driver module files don't exist. We don't
|
|
worry, as all necessary drivers are compiled into the running
|
|
kernel.
|
|
</P
|
|
><P
|
|
> If all package files necessary are availble, the installer should
|
|
run without further errors.
|
|
</P
|
|
><P
|
|
> The installer won't recognize the sound card, so sound won't
|
|
work. Don't worry about this. We'll fix it in a jiffy. Same
|
|
goes for XFree86, so we won't automagically get a working
|
|
graphical user interface either.
|
|
</P
|
|
><P
|
|
> No bootloader will be installed, as there are no availble
|
|
bootloader for the PReP PPC platform (except the one that's
|
|
piggybacked onto the kernel). After the installation is
|
|
done, you will therefore have to boot again from a
|
|
floppy disk. See the next chapter for details.
|
|
</P
|
|
></DIV
|
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></DIV
|
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