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Re: Download instructions for Indy 0.0.0
I clicked on the shortcuts and got a "No such file or directory" error
message on both of then.
Juan
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From: <jfm2@club-internet.fr>
To: <independence-l@seul.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 6:10 PM
Subject: Download instructions for Indy 0.0.0
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> Download instructions
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>
> Preamble: If you are new to Linux we warn you there are other distribs
> who are easier to install and while we hope a user-designed
> distribution like Indy will become better than them at tackling real
> problems of Linux users the fact is Indy is still not quite there. We
> also advise your first distribution be one with printed doc (Indy
> still doesn't have this): our experience is that if for your first
> contact with Linux you go for a cheap CD without paper doc then you
> will fail and end returning to Windows where you will have to pay, and
> pay, and pay for inferior software. Spanish people describe this with
> the expression "Going for the cheap ends being expensive". But if in
> a few months from now you want other newcomers not having to cope with
> the problems you had then remember this project.
>
>
>
> I) Downloading and installing the distributuion
>
> You will need the contents of two directories:
>
> ftp://belegost.seul.org/pub/independence/Indy-7.0/CD1
>
> and
>
> ftp://belegost.seul.org/pub/independence/Indy-7.0/CD2
>
> Hereafter I will refer to the directories you downloaded them as <CD1>
> and <CD2>
>
> Now you can install it from CDROM, from a server (the distrib in the
> original site is NOT setup adequately from this) or from hard disk. In
> future releases we will have iso images and this will make things _much_
> simpler
>
>
> 1) Installing Indy from CDROM.
>
> Look if there is an empty file named .disc1-i386 directly under <CD1>
> and another one called .disc2-i386 directly under <CD2>. Create them
> if they were skipped by your ftp client. Make two images: one for <CD1>
> and one for <CD2> in a such way that the contents of <CD1> and <CD2>
> will be directly under the root of the cdroms (both directories must
> be left outside). Now we have two cases: your box can be booted from
> CDROM or it cannot
>
> a) Box can be booted from CDROM
>
> While building <CD1>, ensure this will be a bootable CDROM and that
> boot image will be <CD1>/images/boot.img. Burn both CDs. Insert CD1
> into reader, reboot and during the BIOS phase ensure the CDROM is
> before hard drive in the boot sequence. Exit Bios. Continue the boot
> sequence and follow instructions.
>
>
> b) Box cannot be booted from CDROM
>
> Burn both CDs. Take a formatted floppy. We advise you to use a new
> floppy since defective ones are a common cause of installation
> failure. If you are using Linux then DON'T mount this floppy, instead
> use the following command:
>
> "dd if=<CD1>/images/boot.img of=/dev/fd0"
>
> if you are using Windows then DON'T use the copy command on the boot
> image, instead you should use <CD1>\dosutils\rawrite and when
> prompted then answer to use <CD1>\images\boot.img.
>
> Once you have creted your boot floppy, insert CD1 into the reader,
> reboot and during the BIOS phase ensure floppy is before hard disk.
> Exit Bios. Continue the boot sequence and follow instructions.
>
>
>
> 2) Installing from hard disk.
>
> Move all the files under <CD2>/Indy/RPMS to <CD1>/Indy/RPMS. Take a
> formatted floppy. If you are using Linux then DON'T mount this
> floppy, instead use the following command
>
> "dd if=<CD1>/images/boot.img of=/dev/fd0"
>
> If you are using Windows then DON'T use the copy command on the boot
> image, instead you should use <CD1>\dosutils\rawrite and, when
> prompted then answerr to use <CD1>\images\boot.img.
>
> Once you have created your boot floppy, reboot (with the floppy in
> reader) and during the BIOS phase ensure floppy is before hard disk in
> the boot sequence. Exit Bios. Continue the boot sequence and follow
> instructions. At one moment you will be prompted for the directory
> and partition containing the install. You must give a path relative
> to the root of the partition, that is if you created your directory
> under /mnt/test/CD1 while partition was mounted under /mnt/test then
> the right answer is /CD1.
>
>
> 3) Installing from network.
>
> On the server containing the distribution move all the files under
> <CD2>/Indy/RPMS to <CD1>/Indy/RPMS. Take a formatted floppy. If you
> are using Linux then DON'T mount this floppy, instead use the
> following command
>
> "dd if=<CD1>/images/bootnet.img of=/dev/fd0"
>
> f you are using Windows then DON'T use the copy command on the boot
> image, instead you should use <CD1>\dosutils\rawrite and, when
> prompted then answer to use <CD1>\images\bootnet.img.
>
> Once you have created your boot floppy, insert it in the floppy of
> the box you will be installing Indy into, reboot and during the BIOS
> phase ensure floppy is before hard disk in the boot sequence. Exit
> Bios. Continue the boot sequence and follow instructions.
>
>
> 4) Upgrading Redhat 7.0 to Indy.
>
> At this point there is no choice but download the entire distribution
> and use one of the methods described above. In the future we hope to
> provide a method so you will only need to download the differential
> and a special script will take care of those programs we replaced with,
> we think, superior alternatives.
>
>
>
> II) Source and Docs.
>
> Most of the source is at
>
> ftp://belegost.seul.org/pub/independence/Indy-7.0/CD3
> There are no special problems in case you want to make a CDROM of it.
>
> the remainder of the source is at
>
> ftp://belegost.seul.org/pub/independence/Indy-7.0/CD2 (you already
> have it if you downloaded the distributions).
>
> Docs are at
>
> ftp://belegost.seul.org/pub/independence/Indy-7.0/CD5.
> Again there are no special problems in case you want to make a CDROM of
it.
>
> the CD4 directory is presently empty and reserved for future growth of
> Indy
>
> --
> Jean Francois Martinez
>
> Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
> http://www.independence.seul.org
>
>