The PC I am using does not support booting of CD. I am hoping someone can give me direction on creating a boot disk for SUSE 9.0. I cannot find any information on it in the userguide. I am after a spoon fed response as I am a newbie. Thankyou.

Sco

On your cds (if you open them in Windows), you should see a Bootdisk directory. In there should be the directions for creating a bootdisk.

Hi XavierP,

I have looked here but it is not very clear to me?!? I know you must be thinking I am a thick twat but can you give me a bit more?

I run rawrite then it asks me to enter source file name?

what do I type here?

Cheers mate.

You can create a new boot/install floppy if you have access to either a
running Linux box or a running DOS box.

Under DOS, write it to a formatted (i.e. error-free) 1.44MB-floppy using
CD1:/dosutils/rawrite/rawrite.exe. For Windows systems there is
CD1:/dosutils/rawwritewin/rawwritewin.exe.

Probably a boot.img file - or at least a file ending in .img

sco_smith,

On the first Suse 9.0 install cd, there's a directory named "Boot." In this directory, there are 2 floppy images (1440 KB) named "bootdisk" and "modules1"; use rawrite to write those images into 2 floppies. When done, reboot with the "bootdisk" floppy and the first Suse 9.0 install cd. After it loads the "bootdisk" floppy into memory, you will be prompted to insert the "modules1" floppy. From there, proceed with installation.

Good luck.