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