From: yseeley@leland.Stanford.EDU (Yonik Christopher Seeley) Subject: Re: Installing Linux for the first time... Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1993 22:32:13 GMT
In article <5Hig8B1w165w@garmr.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca> cory@garmr.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Cory Albrecht) writes:
>Hello,
> I was rooting around the net looking for a way to get Linux to
>take home and install on my machine when I founs the SLS stuff at
>sunsite.unc.edu. From what I can tell from reading various 'readme*'
>files, is that I download all the disks (a, b, c, d, x, et cetera...),
>and then boot with a1. Now how do I bloody go and make a Linux set-up
>boot-disk from the files a1.3, a1.5, &c on sunsite???
You rawrite the a1 image onto a formatted disk. Rawrite is a dos
program that you can find on tsx-11 under /pub/linux/dos_utils/rawrite.exe.
Use the a1.3 image if you have a 3.5" boot drive, or the a1.5 image
for a 5.25" boot drive.
>And I would also
>presume that I can't just go and download the files in the a#, b#, x#, &c
>directories to MS-DOS diskettes and expect to be able to install Linux
>that way, true?
You presume wrong ;-) Linux can mount msdos filesystems, so you just
download every directory to a separate msdos disk.
> So given that I understand unix reasonably well, and comprehend
>partitioning my hard-drive, can somebody e-mail me how I go about getting
>Linux in a format I can install, with in the limitation that while I can
>ftp from anywhere, to get it to my computer I can only download to MS-DOS
>style diskettes. HELP!!
>
>--
>cory (Cory Albrecht)
>"Wolf In The Fold"
>
- Yonik Seeley
yseeley@cs.stanford.edu