The SuSE 6.1 CD is not bootable from SRM console. SuSE have an
alternative approach which involves creating two boot floppies, the
images of which are included on the CD. The boot disks can be created
in various ways, depending on the systems you have available
Writing the boot disks from a linux system
The command to use is dd. From the mount-point of SuSE CD 1, the commands are:
# dd if=disks/aboot of=/dev/fd0
# dd if=disks/install of=/dev/fd0 |
For writing the boot disks from a windows system, the command to use
is rawrite. It is available on the CD.
The program then prompts for input disk image and output disk
drive. Run this command once for each of the disk images as shown
above.
Starting the SuSE installer from the boot disks
With the floppy disk made from the aboot image in place, type:
>>> boot dva0 -file vmlinux.gz -flags "root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1" |
This will start the kernel, prompt you for the second boot disk, and start the installer