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>Getting Started</TITLE
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>The openMosix HOWTO: </TH
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>Chapter 6. PlumpOS</TD
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>6.4. Getting Started</H1
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>You can download the latest PlumpOS package under the terms of the
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GPL, without warranty of any kind, from any PlumpOS mirror. Upon
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downloading, unpack the archive
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>$ tar -xvzf plumpos-6.9-rc1.tar.gz</PRE
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and enter the new directory "plumpos-6.9-rc1/". Now you have several
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options as to how you go about setting up PlumpOS.</P
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>First let's familiarize with the directory structure here. There
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should be 3 directories:
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>rootdisk, which contains the layout of the iso to be created;</P
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>scripts, which contains small programs used to help in the creation of
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the iso;</P
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>final, which will contain the ISO generated by the whole process.</P
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There should also be a file called install which you will run when you
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are done configuring your system.</P
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>If you intend on using your own kernel with PlumpOS, there are several
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steps you must follow in order for it to boot properly. First you must
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make a new directory in the rootdisk/kernels/ directory that will be
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in the old and often blamed DoS 8.3 character format and only contain
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letters and numbers (and a single '.'). In that directory you should
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put a file named bzImage which is your kernel and a file named
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modules.tgz which is a gzipped tarball of your kernel's modules (with
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the relative path of lib/modules/ so it can be extracted from the root
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dir). Optionally you can also provide the System.map and config file
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for your kernel. When this is done you may simply run the install
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program and it will detect and install your kernel(s) for use with the
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generated ISO.</P
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>Now, say you want to include a 3rd party add-on package. This is done
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very simply: create a gzipped tarball containing all the files you
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want to include in your package (relative to "/") and put these
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packages into the rootdisk/packages/ directory. Then edit the file
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rootdisk/packages/list and add the path relative to / on the ramdisk
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where the package can be located (in other words for a package named
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"openssl.tar.gz", add the line "/cdrom/packages/openssl.tar.gz" to the
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file rootdisk/packages/list). Optionally you can use a line such as
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"cdrom:openssl.tar.gz" which will automatically search the cdrom's
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packages directory for the package "openssl.tar.gz". In future
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releases this will be useful for things like nfs and boot floppies, so
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for now don't worry about it ;)</P
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>Requirements</TD
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