Topic: boot disk

[Matt Townsley]

okay, i'm pretty new in the linux world, so don't flame me if this is a dumb question (because i'm sure it is), but I was wondering just exactly what steps i need to take to make the e-smith boot disk.  i've read most of the .pdf manual as well as browsed the web site, but haven't found a single thing; maybe i just missed it, i don't know.  i downloaded and burned the iso file, so i'm all set there.   i assume the .img file on the cd-rom is the image i'm suppossed to use to make a boot floppy?  is rawrite needed?  in the past, i've installed distributions of linux on my computer using bootable cd-roms, in case anyone was wondering if i was at least a bit linux-literate.  thanks for the help in advance.

-Matt Townsley

[Carl Enset]

from "http://www.e-smith.net/download/"
In Linux/Unix use the commands:
  mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
  dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
  umount /mnt/cdrom

Under Windows, you can create your floppy diskette using the rawrite.exe program on the CDROM (located in the dosutils directory). Change to the dosutils directory on the CDROM, then
run the rawrite.exe program. In response to the prompts, request that the boot.img image file be written to your floppy diskette.
The location for the images is X:imagesoot.img
     (where x is the the drive letter of your cdrom)

I can't rember but I think that the e-smith 4.0bx CDROM is bootable... (3.1 doesn't)

[Charlie Brady]

Carl Enset wrote:

> I can't rember but I think that the e-smith 4.0bx CDROM is
> bootable... (3.1 doesn't)

The CDROM might be bootable, but currently still requires a boot floppy in the floppy drive, or at least a floppy disk in DOS format containing the installation specification file "ks.cfg". We should have removed this restriction by e-smith 4.1.

Regards

Charlie