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Typical installation
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Please consult the section ``Other installation methods'' in
the file ``INSTALL.txt'' at the root directory of the CDROM,
for general information on how to install Mandrake Linux
with floppy images from this directory.


Notice about network installations
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    [*] off a floppy

Use the `network.img' boot floppy image to create a boot floppy
you can use to install Mandrake Linux over the network. You can
install from a local NFS mirror, or using FTP, or HTTP. You will
need the name of the server and the Mandrake directory that
contains the "base" file, e.g. for FTP that might be
ftp.some-mirror.org and the directory might be:

/pub/mirrors/Mandrake/10.1/i586

After booting, you will first be prompted to insert the additional
floppy containing the network drivers. Insert the floppy made out
of `network_drivers.img' in your floppy drive, proceed.

Then, you will also be prompted to configure the network, and
finally the installation program will be downloaded.

After the installer has been downloaded over the network, installation
is exactly the same as with a CD-ROM, except that packages are
downloaded as needed.

    [*] off a CDROM

If you don't have a floppy driver, or for any other reasons, you
might want to start a network installation off a CDROM. Boot with
the first CDROM and type F1 then "alt0". If you don't have the
CDROM, you may also want to burn the `boot.iso' smaller iso
image.

    [*] off the network

If you want to boot directly off the network (pxe), use the
files:
        isolinux/alt0/vmlinuz
        isolinux/alt0/all.rdz


Alternate installation methods
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As non-regression principle doesn't exist in the Linux world :-), you
will maybe have trouble with some particular hardware, with the default
kernel.

You can use an alternate kernel to try and fix that : use the
relevant boot floppy in the `alternatives' subdirectory instead
of default boot floppy. For example using file
`cdrom.img-2.4.24-1mdkBOOT' will end up with a cdrom-based
installation, running with the kernel version 2.4.24-1mdkBOOT.

NB: default images have the freshest kernel version.


Old SCSI adapters
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We removed seldom used modules because they are large and mostly
about old hardware. You have a solution though:

- create a traditional "cdrom.img" floppy

- create an ext2 floppy with command:

  mke2fs /dev/fd0

- find your driver in the kernel-BOOT package; for example, the
  driver might be:

  /lib/modules/<kernel-version>BOOT/kernel/3rdparty/dc395x_trm/dc395x_trm.o.gz

- copy it unzipped on the ext2 floppy with the command or its
  equivalent for another driver:

  zcat /lib/modules/<kernel-version>BOOT/kernel/3rdparty/dc395x_trm/dc395x_trm.o.gz > /mnt/floppy/dc395x_trm.o

- also copy (unzipped) the dependencies for that module (such as
  scsi_mod.o for example; there might be others, check in the
  modules.dep file)

- boot the cdrom.img floppy with F1 then "linux expert", it will
  allow you to put the floppy and load the modules from there, in
  dependencies order of course (scsi_mod.o first, etc)


Rescue system
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Just use any boot floppy or the CDROM (as if you were performing a
normal install), and type "F1" then "rescue" at boot time.
You will have a basic system, in order to recover from crashes or
things like that.