Appendix A. Alternate Installation Methods

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Creating a Boot Floppy for Network Installation
Creating a Boot Floppy for Local Installation
Installing Turbolinux 8 Server Over a Network
Installing Turbolinux 8 Server Locally

The standard method of Turbolinux 8 Server installation is from a bootable CD-ROM drive. This is the method assumed in chapters 2 and 3 of this document.

To install Turbolinux 8 Server over a network, or locally from a removable hard disk or a non-bootable CD-ROM drive requires a boot floppy disk. This appendix addresses creating a boot floppy and installing using these other methods.

This appendix is divided into the following sections:

Creating a Boot Floppy for Network Installation

To create a boot floppy for network installation:

  1. Insert the Turbolinux 8 Server Install CD 1

  2. Mount the CD-ROM drive using the command:

    mount /mnt/cdrom
  3. Change the working directory to the CD's /images directory using the command:

    cd /mnt/cdrom/images
  4. Copy the file network.img to the floppy disk

    dd if=network.img of=/dev/fd0