Add note about partition a better be at offset 0 for a disk to be bootable.
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distribution CDROM. Earlier versions needed booting from a
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2 disk floppy set.</para>
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<para>In order to be bootable the root partition (partition a)
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must be at offset 0 of the disk drive. This means you have to
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use the installer's partitioning menu and start with assigning
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partiton a at offset 0 to the root partition. Subsequently layout
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the rest of the partitions to your liking. If you do not adhere
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to this rule the install will proceed just fine, but the system
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will not be bootable from the freshly installed disk.</para>
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<para>If you don't have/want a local disk drive you can boot via
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the Ethernet. This assumes an Ethernet adapter/chip that is
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recognized by the SRM console. Generally speaking this boils down to
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