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Minimum
300MHz, i686 Pentium 2 or higher
text-mode: 128MB
graphical: 256MB
Custom Installation (Minimal): 700MB
Server: 1GB
Personal Desktop: 1.5GB
Workstation: 2.1GB
Custom Installation (Everything): 4.7GB
If your computer supports it (most do), you can boot automatically from DVD or CD#1 to install X/OS Linux. You may have to turn the "boot from CD" option on using your system's BIOS settings utility.
Some hardware configurations require the use of a boot diskette and/or one or more driver diskettes. The diskettes needed can be created by using the image files located on the installation media, in the directory /images.
bootdisk.img -- primary boot diskette image file.
A diskette created from this file can be used for all installation methods.
drvblock.img -- image file containing supplemental block device drivers.
A diskette created from this file is required when the system contains any non-IDE mass storage devices (i.e. SCSI disk).
drvnet.img -- image file containing supplemental network drivers.
A diskette created from this file may be required when a network-based installation method is used.
pcmciadd.img -- PCMCIA driver image file.
A diskette created from this file is needed when PCMCIA devices (i.e. PCMCIA-based network adapter) is used during installation.
To write an image file to diskette, use either the dd command under any Linux-like system, or the rawrite program in the /dosutils directory. For example, to create an installation boot diskette: insert a blank diskette, change directory to /images on the DVD or CD#1 and execute the following command:
dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0
The boot.iso file in the /images directory is an ISO image that can be used to boot the X/OS Linux installation program and allows you to start network-based installations without having to use multiple diskettes. To use boot.iso, your computer must be able to boot from its CD-ROM drive and its BIOS settings must be configured to do so.
The dvd2cd utility in the /dvdutils directory on the DVD can be used to create the raw ISO9660 CD images from the DVD. The mkisofs tool (available on most Linux systems) is required to run dvd2cd.
To create the first three CD images from the DVD mounted on /mnt/cdrom:
dvd2cd /mnt/cdrom 1 2 3
The first parameter specifies the top directory of the DVD tree. Second and further parameters specify the CD's to write as ISO image file. CD's 1, 2 and 3 together contain the binary distribution (CD#1 is a bootable CD). CD's 4, 5 and 6 contain the source packages.
dvd2cd will create the CD images in the current directory. Another tool (i.e. cdrecord) must be used to write the image to CD.