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 Installing SuSE 7.3
Posted July 24, 2003

Here are a few notes made while installing SuSE on an i386 system. I used a 550 MHz Pentium III, two 4 GB Western Digital WDE4550 SCSI disks, two Adaptec 2940 SCSI controllers, and a 3com 905B network card.

  1. Download three floppy images: bootdisk, modules, and modules2.

    From ftp.nrc.ca:

  2. Write the images on three disks. If you have a BSD machine, do this: 
    fdformat /dev/rfd0
dd if=bootdisk of=/dev/rfd0
    If you have a Linux machine, do this: 
    fdformat /dev/fd0
dd if=bootdisk of=/dev/fd0
  3. Boot with the bootdisk floppy. It will prompt you for the modules floppy.
  4. Choose "Load network modules." It will prompt you for the modules2 floppy.
  5. Load the 3c59x module (this works for my 905 as well).
  6. Choose "Install by FTP." Enter your local network info.
  7. IP address of ftp.nrc.ca: 132.246.160.5
  8. Path to SuSE 7.3 at ftp.nrc.ca: /pub/systems/linux/suse/suse/i386/7.3
  9. Load configuration: minimal.
  10. Start installation.

More tidbits:

  • To use the install/update program later, log in as root and run "yast". 
planb:~ # time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1048576
4341+1 records in
4341+1 records out

real    7m35.029s
user    0m0.050s
sys     1m25.790s

9.54 MBytes/s reading + writing on different SCSI controllers.