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Remove outdated info on install media.

Submitted by: "William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>
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wilko 2005-01-07 19:32:32 +00:00
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that can boot from IDE disks and CDROMs. Check the machine
specific section for details.</para>
<para>&os; 4.0 and later can be booted from the
distribution CDROM. Earlier versions needed booting from a
2 disk floppy set.</para>
<para>In order to be bootable the root partition (partition a)
must be at offset 0 of the disk drive. This means you have to
use the installer's partitioning menu and start with assigning
partition a at offset 0 to the root partition. Subsequently layout
the rest of the partitions to your liking. If you do not adhere
to this rule the install will proceed just fine, but the system
will not be bootable from the freshly installed disk.</para>
will not be bootable from the freshly installed disk. Note that
fdisk is not used on &os; running on Alpha, disks are directly
labeled using disklabel.</para>
<para>If you don't have/want a local disk drive you can boot via
the Ethernet. This assumes an Ethernet adapter/chip that is