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Special Installation Procedures
3.6 Tips and Tricks
3.6.1 Creating a Boot Disk in DOS
You need formatted 3.5” HD floppy disks and a bootable 3.5” floppy disk
drive. The boot directory on CD 1 contains a number of disk images. With
a suitable utility, these images can be copied to floppy disks. A floppy disk
prepared in this way is referred to as a boot disk.
The disk images also include the loader SYSLINUX and the program linuxrc.
SYSLINUX enables the selection of a kernel during the boot procedure and
the specification of any parameters needed for the hardware used. The pro-
gram linuxrc supports the loading of kernel modules for your hardware
and subsequently starts the installation.
Creating a Boot Disk with rawwritewin
In Windows, boot disks can be created with the graphical utility
rawwritewin. Find this utility in the directory dosutils/rawwritewin/
on CD 1.
On start-up, specify the image file. The image files are located in the boot
directory on CD 1. You need at least the images “bootdisk” and “mod-
ules1”. To list these images in the file browser, set the file type to “all files”.
Then insert a floppy disk in your floppy disk drive and click “write”. To
create several floppy disks, repeat the same procedure.
Creating a Boot Disk with rawrite
The DOS utility rawrite.exe (CD 1, directory dosutils/rawrite) can
be used to create SUSE boot and module disks. To use this utility, you need
a computer with DOS (such as FreeDOS) or Windows.
In Windows XP, proceed as follows:
1. Insert SUSE LINUX CD 1.
2. Open a DOS window (in the start menu, select ‘Accessories’ ➝ ‘Com-
mand Prompt’).
3. Run rawrite.exe with the correct path specification for the CD drive.
The example assumes that you are in the directory Windows on the
hard disk C: and your CD drive is D:.
d:\dosutils\rawrite\rawrite
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