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>7. Installation of Distributions</A
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>7.1. RedHat 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2</A
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>7.1.1. Installation from the Red Hat 6.0, 6.1 or 6.2 CD</A
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>Red Hat have made their distribution CD bootable from SRM console
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>[1]</A
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To start an installation, put the CD in and type
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the following:
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>>>> boot srm-device -file kernels/generic.gz -flags root=linux-device</PRE
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>In the above, the SRM device name and Linux device name for your
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CD-ROM drive are needed. For Example if the machine had an IDE cdrom
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installed as primary master the command would look like this:
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>>>> boot dqa0 -file kernels/generic.gz -flags "root=/dev/hda"</PRE
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>See the section on <A
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HREF="aboot.html#DEVICE-NAMING"
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>Section 5.6.1</A
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> conventions if you don't know what these are.</P
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>7.2. SuSE 6.1</A
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>7.2.1. Installation from the SuSE 6.1 CD</A
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>The SuSE 6.1 CD is not bootable from SRM console. SuSE have an
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alternative approach which involves creating two boot floppies, the
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images of which are included on the CD. The boot disks can be created
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in various ways, depending on the systems you have available</P
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>Writing the boot disks from a linux system
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The command to use is dd. From the mount-point of SuSE CD 1, the commands are:
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># dd if=disks/aboot of=/dev/fd0
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# dd if=disks/install of=/dev/fd0</PRE
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>For writing the boot disks from a windows system, the command to use
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is rawrite. It is available on the CD.
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> D:\tools\> rawrite</PRE
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>The program then prompts for input disk image and output disk
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drive. Run this command once for each of the disk images as shown
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above.</P
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>Starting the SuSE installer from the boot disks
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With the floppy disk made from the aboot image in place, type:
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>>>> boot dva0 -file vmlinux.gz -flags "root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1"</PRE
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>This will start the kernel, prompt you for the second boot disk, and start the installer</P
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>7.3. SuSE 6.3</A
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>7.3.1. Installation from the SuSE 6.3 CD</A
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>The SuSE 6.3 CD-ROM is SRM bootable much like the RedHat 6.0 and 6.1 CD-ROMs. The best way
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to start the install from SRM is to use the following command:
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>>>> boot srm-device -flags 0</PRE
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>In the above, the SRM device names for your
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CD-ROM drive is needed. For Example if the machine had an IDE cdrom
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installed as primary master the command would look like this:
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>>>> boot dqa0 -flags 0</PRE
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SuSE has added support to aboot to allow it to load initrd files. The above command will from the
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CD-ROM drive and use config number 0 from the /etc/aboot.conf file. For other variations
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on this refer to the SuSE installation guide.</P
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>Please note that through the official RedHat CD-ROM is SRM
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bootable, copies made by various other companies may not be
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bootable.</P
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