Making Install Floppies and/or CD's
Scientific Linux Fermi LTS 3.0.x
Network Install via Floppy (i386 only)
There was not enough space on just 1 floppy so RedHat redesigned the install
to have a "generic" boot floppy. With all of the device drivers on driver
floppies. There is a net , pcmcia, and a block driver floppy. With a Fermi
Linux install you will need the "generic" bootdisk.img floppy. And either
the "net" drvnet.img or the "pcmcia" pcmcia.img floppy for your network
drivers. I have modified the boot.img install floppy image to automatically
put in the nfs server and nfs install directory. To override this you can
select the original redhat choice with
linux
at the install floppy prompt.
You will have to make your own floppies from
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts304/i386/sites/Fermi/images/bootdisk.img
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts303/i386/sites/Fermi/images/bootdisk.img
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts301/i386/images/bootdisk.img
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts30rolling/i386/images/bootdisk.img
and one of these corresponding floppy images
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts304/i386/sites/Fermi/images/drvnet.img
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts304/i386/sites/Fermi/images/pcmcia.img
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts303/i386/sites/Fermi/images/drvnet.img
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts303/i386/sites/Fermi/images/pcmcia.img
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts301/i386/images/drvnet.img
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts301/i386/images/pcmcia.img
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts30rolling/i386/images/drvnet.img
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts30rolling/i386/images/pcmcia.img
To make the install floppies. Put a scratch floppy in "/dev/fd0" for
each image.
dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0
Network Install via CDROM (both i386 and x86_64)
There is also a boot.iso which is small iso image which includes all the
drivers on the driver floppies and the generic boot info. This can be used
instead of the above floppies. After download you can use cdrecord to
create a cdr with this image on it.
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts304/x86_64/sites/Fermi/images/boot.iso
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts304/i386/sites/Fermi/images/boot.iso
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts304/i386/images/Fermi/SL.Fermi.boot.superduper.022205.iso
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts303/i386/sites/Fermi/images/boot.iso
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts303/i386/sites/Fermi/images/SL.Fermi.boot.superduper.100304.iso
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts301/i386/images/boot.iso
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts301/i386/images/boot.superduper.012604.iso
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/lts30rolling/i386/images/boot.iso
Fermi Linux 7.3.x
If you want to make the install floppy yourself the you need to first download
the install image and then put the install image on the floppy.
To put the install image on the floppy. Put a scratch floppy in "/dev/fd0".
Download the apropriate file(s) and run the command
dd if=bootnet.img of=/dev/fd0
Substitue in the appropriate name for bootnet.img
Floppy image locations
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/731/i386/images/
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/732/i386/images/
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/73rolling/i386/images/
Basic Network Install Floppy
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/71rolling/i386/images/bootnet.img
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/73rolling/i386/images/bootnet.img
Laptop Network Install Floppies (you need both pcmcia and pcmciadd)
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/731/i386/images/pcmcia.img
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/731/i386/images/pcmciadd.img
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/732/i386/images/pcmcia.img
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/732/i386/images/pcmciadd.img
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/73rolling/i386/images/pcmcia.img
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/73rolling/i386/images/pcmciadd.img
Driver Disks (if needed)
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/731/i386/images/drvnet.img
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/731/i386/images/drvblock.img
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/732/i386/images/drvnet.img
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/732/i386/images/drvblock.img
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/73rolling/i386/images/drvnet.img
ftp://linux.fnal.gov/linux/73rolling/i386/images/drvblock.img