Before You Begin a Network Installation

Before you begin installing the Java Desktop System from the network, you need to have the following:

• IP address of your machine

• IP address of a nameserver

• IP address of an NFS server

• Network subnet mask

• Type of network card installed

• JDS CD1 or three boot disks (see the following section to locate the boot disks)

Boot Disk Locations

The boot disks are available from the following locations:

• On disk labelled CD 1 included with your Java Desktop System installation package.

• From your network install image in the sles9/CD1/boot folder.

The boot disk subfolders are named as follows:

• bootdisk

• modules1

• modules3

Use the following command to make other disks, if required:

dd if=/export/suseimage/boot/bootdisk of=/dev/fd0

You may need additional disks depending on your hardware, for example, SCSI controllers and USB drives.