Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Doug McGarrett <dougmack@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 20 May 2002 14:36, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Monday 20 May 2002 20.27, Bill Parker wrote:
> >     I have a old pent-133 which I would like to try to get running under
> > SuSE 8.0, however, the BIOS does NOT support booting from CD, is there a
> > way I can make a install floppy for SuSE 8.0 so that it boots, and can
> > switch to CD to complete the install?
>
> Yes, on CD 1 and on the DVD there's a directory "disks". Create the
> bootdisk with
>
> dd if=/cdrom/disks/bootdisk of=/dev/fd0
>
> Then create the modules disks, to get the drivers you need to boot the
> system. If you don't have any scsi devices or other weird things you
> probably won't need them, but just in case...

I have an all SCSI machine.  There is nothing not SCSI in it.
But it's a 166 Pentium with 64 MB ram.
I did exactly this, in accordance with the instructions in the manual.
Then I booted the machine on the boot disk.  It was fine.
It asked for the Modules 1 disk.  So far so good.  Then it
said to insert  "a modules disk."  That was the end.  I inserted
the second modules disk, and nothing happened.  I wound
up doing a semi-graphical install, and I warn everybody out there
now that I don't remember exactly how I did it, so don't write--
but I'm right now writing form SuSE Linux 8.0, which is slower
than molasses on this machine.

However, it IS possible to install from floppies and CD, if you must.
OTOH, maybe on an old machine with slow processor and only 64 MB
of memory, (like mine) you may want to keep SuSE 5.x or 6 .x or even 
SuSE 7.1, which is the last version I had on the machine.  

--doug, wa2say

>
> If you're on a dos/win-system when you do this, use the utility rawrite.exe
> to create the disks. It's in the "dosutils" directory.
>
> regards
> Anders