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)
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.