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Creation of the muLinux boot diskette

Installation under DOS

Download the necessary files

Use an FTP client for downloading or follow the http links below. Your browser must be configured for binary downloads.

mulinux-9r1b.tgz

DOSTOOLS.ZIP

This is the disk image for the µLinux boot disk and the DOS Tools for creating the boot disk under DOS.

If using Netscape Comunicator right click on the files and select "Save Link As... ".

Create the boot disk

Note: The creation of the boot disk does not work with SCSI - drives. Check the muLinux Website for newer versions with better SCSI support. This document does not always use the newest version of muLinux, naturally. While it is possible to boot with the created disk, you will not be able to access your fixed SCSI disks.

Copy the files DOSTOOLS.ZIP and mulinux.VERSION.tgz to an empty directory (e.g. c:\mulinux).

Unpack DOSTOOLS.ZIP with pkunzip:

c:\mulinux> pkunzip DOSTOOLS.zip

You can also use winzip from within Windows.

Exit Windows and boot into a full DOS mode. Do not use the DOS window. Also no device drivers under DOS should be loaded.

Start the installation program ( install.bat):

c:\mulinux> install

The install script will first ask for the directory in which the image file is located.

A 3.5" (High Density) diskette is placed in the A:\ drive . This will be very densly formatted (1,722 MByte). The computer is then restarted with this disk in the a:\ drive.

Installation under Linux

Download the necessary files

Use an FTP client for downloading or follow the http links below. Your browser must be configured for binary downloads.

mulinux-9r1b.tgz

This is the disk image for the muLinux boot disk.

If using Netscape Comunicator right click on the files and select "Save Link As... ".

Create the boot disk

You must be root (superuser) to install.

Create an empty directory:
mkdir /mulinux

Copy the file into the new directory:
cp mulinux.VERSION.tgz /mulinux

Change to the directory:
cd /mulinux

Unpack mulinux VERSION.tgz with:
tar - zxf mulinux.VERSION.tgz

A new directory, VERSION  will be created. Change into this directory.
cd /VERSION

We can also ls to check whether we are in the correct directory. There should be, among other things, files with the names mu, fdformat, ROOT.gz and USR.bz2.

Call the installation program with:
./mu - i

The point before the diagonal stroke (forward Slash) indicates the current directory. It is thus only in the current directory that the program mu will be searched for. This is necessary under Unix, if a program is to be started in the current directory.

In the installation program we type (one) 1 for producing the start disk, then insert a new diskette and acknowledge the question, whether it is to be formatted, with y, for yes .

The program superformat starts and creates 82 high-density data tracks. Thus, 1772 kB will will be written to the diskette instead of the usual 1440 kB.

After formatting, a test program tests the tracks individually to ensure that they can be read and written to. Pay attention to the display output: if it does not count up up to track 81, the process must be repeated!

Write 'muLinux Startdisk' on this diskette. Use it to boot the computer.