SuSE Linux: Versions since 7.0
You want to copy Linux completely or in parts from a DOS partition to your harddrive to install on it.
You have already installed DOS, Windows or OS/2 and you know, that Linux does not support your cdrom drive. You have enough space on your DOS or Windows partition (Fat/Fat32) and your system comes with sufficient memory.
This is how you should copy all the required files to the hard
drive (if you do not want to carry out the following steps
individually, the batch file lhdsetup.bat
in the
directory \dosutils
may be of help to you; you may run
lhdsetup.bat
with options for directory, CD drive and
kernel e.g.: lhdsetup c:\emil d k_deflt):
Since SuSE 7.2
the compressed root image is not part of \suse\images on CD1 (due to capacity reasons).
You may
download it from our ftp server (or a mirror site). Even if you want to use lhdsetup
you have to create a
directory \emil\suse\images and copy root to it.
\emil
.
\emil
you will need another
directory, suse
, and there in turn, at least the directories a1,
images and setup. These are necessary for the base installation of
Linux. Create these directories now.\suse\a1
of the first CD to
\emil\suse\a1
on your hard drive: if you have enough
space on your DOS partition then you can copy the complete tree,
\suse
from the CD to \emil\suse
.
\suse\images\readme.dos
.Copy this kernel to \emil\suse\images
. A kernel
consists of four files (see above): the kernel without an extension
and those files with the extensions .ikr, .inf and
.map
. If space on your hard drive is not an issue, you can copy
all the kernels into this directory. You can then choose your kernel
later on.
\suse\images\root
and
\suse\images\initdisk.gz
to
\emil\suse\images
.\suse\setup\loadlin.exe
to
\emil\suse\setup
.
\suse\images\root
and
copy it to \emil\suse\setup\inst-img
; to do this, you should use
the DOS version of gzip from the directory \dosutils\gzip
of
the CD:
C:>cd \emil\suse
C:>d:\dosutils\gzip\gzip -dc images\root >setup\inst-img
inst-img
can be removed.\suse\setup\descr
to it.
\suse\setup\du
to \emil\suse\setup\du
, which
you have to create in advance. These files are not really necessary
but will later help you to show you how much space is left and how
much is already occupied. If you have enough space, then this is quite
useful.
\emil\suse
and copy
the relevant files there. You can find all packages with their
contents in the online documentation of the CD or in the package
descriptions.
`hard drive'
, and the question
about the hard drive partitions is answered with the device of your
DOS partition. This is usually /dev/hda1
or
/dev/sda1
if DOS resides on the first primary partition.
If you stuck to the example above, the source medium this is the
next question should be specified as /emil. Then the installation
proceeds.Under no circumstances you should, if you will be asked how to partition,
specify the `Use whole hard disk'
this would undo all
your preparations.