Installing PLD Linux based on Rescue CD

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Contents

  1. TOC
  2. Requirements
  3. Partition disk
  4. Filesystem
  5. Network configuration
  6. Poldek's configuration
  7. Packages installation
  8. Kernel installation
    1. Prepare to install kernel
    2. Kernel installation
  9. Bootloader
    1. lilo
    2. grub
    3. Advanced configuration
  10. udev
  11. User accounts
  12. Finishing

2. Requirements

Download RescueCD from : http://rescuecd.pld-linux.org/ You need at least a i486 machine with 40MB RAM to run PLD RescueCD.

3. Partition disk

Use for example cfdisk to partition your destination disk. Usually root partition (/) and swap is enough.
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4. Filesystem

Initiate swap space 

# mkswap /dev/sda1

Make filesystem (ex. ext3) 

# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda2

We need to create mountpoint, and mounnt partition into it. 

# mkdir /pld
# mount /dev/hda2 /pld

If We want to use more partitions (ex. /boot), We need to mount it too.

5. Network configuration

RescueCd should configure (using DHCP) our network automatically during a boot process. If DHCP is not present, We need to do it manually. Let's assume We want to set IP to 192.168.0.2. /etc/sysconfig/interfaces/ifcfg-eth0 should looks like: 

DEVICE=eth0
IPADDR=192.168.0.2
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none

In file /etc/sysconfig/static-routes We added route to gateway (ex.: 10.0.0.254): 

eth0 default via 10.0.0.254

In file /etc/resolv.conf we add at least one adress of DNS server: 

nameserver 193.192.160.243

In the end We need to reload network configuration: 

# service network restart

6. Poldek's configuration

In file /etc/poldek/repos.d/pld.conf We need to set _arch = to chosen architecture ex. 

_arch   = x86_64

7. Packages installation

# rpm --root /pld --initdb
# poldek --root /pld

poldek> install setup FHS udev pwdutils chkconfig dhcpcd poldek vim geninitrd \
module-init-tools cpio lilo mount login mingetty


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8. Kernel installation

8.1. Prepare to install kernel

# mount /proc /pldroot/proc -o bind

Configure /etc/fstab ex.: 

/dev/sda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda2 /    ext3 defaults 0 0


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8.2. Kernel installation

# poldek --root /pld -i kernel

9. Bootloader

9.1. lilo

Edit /etc/lilo.conf 

boot=/dev/sda
read-only
lba32
prompt
timeout=100

image=/boot/vmlinuz
        label=pld
        root=/dev/sda2
        initrd=/boot/initrd

And execute: 

# chroot /pld /sbin/lilo

9.2. grub

Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst 

timeout 10

title  pld
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz boot=/dev/hda
initrd /boot/initrd

And execute 

# chroot /pld /sbin/grub

A Grub's shell will started. Let's make some changes: 

grub> root (hd0,1)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit

9.3. Advanced configuration

Advanced lilo and grub configuration is described here: ../Bootloader

10. udev


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11. User accounts


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12. Finishing


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