We can PXE boot most of our computers here to get the network install, but the odd one canno do this so: You can try the Suse provided boot image here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/nashif/ and do something like: dformat /dev/fd0 dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k Then edit the menu.lst file on the floppy. It did indeed boot, but no network, so not much use. Maybe I was missing something....? So I then used the grub bootloader: Suse boot floppy using grub: download grub package from: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/ or http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/ to /temp tar xvfz grub-0.95.tar.gz cd /temp/grub-0.95 ./configure --enable-natsemi OR ./configure --enable-natsemi --enable-tulip OR Whatever network drivers you want. make /sbin/mke2fs -m 0 /dev/fd0 mount /floppy cp ./stage1/stage1 ./stage2/stage2 ./stage2/e2fs_stage1_5 /floppy cp /boot/message /floppy cd /floppy vi menu.lst " dhcp gfxmenu /message color white/blue black/light-gray default 1 timeout 8 title SuSE Linux Auto Installation kernel (nd)/linux install=nfs://XXXX/ autoyast=nfs://XXXX/autoyast/ay.xml load_ramdisk=1 textmode=1 initrd (nd)/initrd title Booting from local hard disk root (hd0) chainloader +1 " cd /temp/grub-0.95/grub/grub install (fd0)/stage1 (fd0) (fd0)/e2fs_stage1_5 (fd0)/stage2 p (fd0)/menu.lst quit umount /floppy boot from the floppy configfile /menu.lst dunno why the menu.lst file is not picked up automatically as it is supposed to be, but it does work. Alternatively you can do this with a grub boot CD: CD boot image creation mkdir iso Make a directory for GRUB: $ mkdir -p iso/boot/grub Copy the file stage2_eltorito: $ cp /usr/share/grub/i386-pc/stage2_eltorito iso/boot/grub If desired, make the config file menu.lst under iso/boot/grub (see Configuration), and copy any files and directories for the disc to the directory iso/. Finally, make a ISO9660 image file like this: $ mkisofs -R -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot \ -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o grub.iso iso record_cd grub.iso Good luck. Mike Rose TCM & Biological Physics Computer Officer University of Cambridge http://www.bio.phy.cam.ac.uk/ http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/ On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Shane A Broomhall (AUST) wrote:

Hi All,

This is my first post to this group, and I apologise if I am asking something that is a common thread.

I have the need to using a boot floppy, have a minimal network version of linux start, load a non standard broadcom driver and run a standard install from a network server, actually a laptop.

I will need to do this with SUSE 9.1, SLES 8& 9.

Whilst I do not expect anyone to provide me with a complete solution, some guidance on where to look for the tools to do this, would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Shane Broomhall

Brisbane Australia

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