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NAME="FLOPPIES"
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>Make boot floppies</H1
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NAME="AEN392"
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> Both installing via net or CD needs bootstrapping with floppy
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disks. In this chapter we will learn where to get floppy images,
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and how to make useable boot floppies from them.
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>What floppies to make</H2
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> First we need a boot floppy. This will be a custom compiled
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Linux kernel image able to boot on the 7248. Then we need one
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or more ramdisk images.
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>Debian Woody</P
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> For Debian, we need a boot floppy and one ramdisk
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floppy. You can download necessary files from <A
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HREF="http://users.linpro.no/ingvar/43p/images/Debian/"
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TARGET="_top"
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> http://users.linpro.no/ingvar/43p/images/Debian/</A
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. The files are called
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<SPAN
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>debian-7248-boot.img</I
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> and
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<SPAN
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>debian-7248-ramdisk.img</I
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> . (The
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ramdisk image is the root.bin from Debian boot-floppies)
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>Yellow Dog Dayton</P
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> For Yellow Dog we need a boot floppy, and no less than
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three ramdisk floppies, because of the size of the
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installer. I have built custom ramdisk images for the
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7248. The files are called
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<SPAN
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>ydl-7248-boot.img</I
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>,
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>ydl-7248-ramdisk-1.img</I
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>,
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<SPAN
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>ydl-7248-ramdisk-2.img</I
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> and
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<SPAN
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>ydl-7248-ramdisk-3.img</I
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>, and are
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available from <A
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HREF="http://users.linpro.no/ingvar/43p/images/YellowDog/"
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TARGET="_top"
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> http://users.linpro.no/ingvar/43p/images/YellowDog/</A
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>.
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You will need all the ramdisk files.
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>SuSE 7.3</P
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> For SuSE, we need a boot floppy and one ramdisk
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floppy. You can download necessary files from <A
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HREF="http://users.linpro.no/ingvar/43p/images/SuSE/"
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TARGET="_top"
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> http://users.linpro.no/ingvar/43p/images/SuSE/</A
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>
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. The files are <SPAN
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><I
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>called
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suse-7248-boot.img</I
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> and
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<SPAN
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>suse-7248-ramdisk.img</I
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>. (The latter
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is copied from ftp.suse.com)
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>Mandrake Bamboo</P
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> For Mandrake, we need a boot floppy and one ramdisk
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floppy. You can download necessary files from <A
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HREF="http://users.linpro.no/ingvar/43p/images/Mandrake/"
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> http://users.linpro.no/ingvar/43p/images/Mandrake/</A
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>
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. The files are <SPAN
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mdk-7248-boot.img</I
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>mdk-7248-ramdisk.img</I
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>. (The latter
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is a copy of the all-r6sk.gz from the Mandrake cd)
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> If you use Netscape or another web browser to download the
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files, you should check that the sizes of the downloaded files
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are correct. Some versions of Netscape tend to uncompress
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compressed files, and we want to keep them compressed. If
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strange things things happen at boot time, try using another
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program for downloading the files, like wget or lynx.
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NAME="FLOPPIES-HOWTO"
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>How to make the boot floppies</H2
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> Use always errorfree 1.44MB floppies for these images. The
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commands shown here is for a working Linux system. They
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might work on other UNIX systems as well. On some systems
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you may have to be root to write directly to the floppy drive.
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In those cases, so du a 'su root' before issuing the commands.
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> MS-DOS users may use the rawrite utility. You can download
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rawrite from several places, for example a RedHat mirror as
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HREF="ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/RedHat/redhat/7.3/es/os/i386/dosutils"
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> ftp://ftp.uninett.no/</A
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>. More information on how to use
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rawrite <A
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HREF="http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/install-guide/s1-steps-install-cdrom.html#S2-STEPS-MAKE-DISKS"
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>here.</A
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> To make the boot floppy, insert a floppy in the drive, cd to
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the directory containing the boot floppy image and issue the
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following command, substitute "debian" to your distributon prefix if
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necessary.
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>dd if=debian-7248-boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=36b</PRE
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Label the disk "Boot floppy" or whatever you like.
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> To make a ramdisk floppy, insert a floppy in the drive, cd to
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the directory containing the ramdisk image, and issue the
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following command. Substitute the filename with an image for
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your distribution of choice, like "ydl-7248-ramdisk-2.img" for
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the second YellowDog ramdisk floppy image.
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<PRE
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>dd if=debian-7248-ramdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=36b</PRE
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Label the disk "Ramdisk floppy #1" or whatever you like.
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Remember that Debian and SuSE has one ramdisk floppy. For
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Yellow Dog, you need three.
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