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1.Type: swriteboot
drive, s for SCSI or h for IDE; and Z is the letter of the drive you are booting; ex: dka0=sda, dqa0=hda)
2.Type: mkswap /dev/TdZW (where T is the type of drive, s for SCSI or h for IDE; Z is the
letter of the drive you are booting; ex: dka0=sda, dqa0=hda); and W is the swap partition number (I.e. mkswap /dev/sda3 or mkswap /dev/hda3.) This is required to work around a problem of the swap.
3.Mount the floppy disk to copy the kernel from the floppy to the /boot/ directory on the system disk. Type: mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
4.Now go to the /boot directory. Type: cd /boot
5.Copy the kernel. Type: cp /floppy/vmlinux.gz .
6.Unmount the floppy. Type: umount /dev/fd0
7.Type: shutdown -h now
The system may or may not hang here. This is a known issue and is being worked on. Please reset or power cycled the system to continue with installation.
At the SRM prompt, you can now boot directly from the hard drive:
P00>>>boot
The system should now boot and prompt you to login. Upon logging in, you will probably want to configure the X Window System. To do so, login as the user "root", and then run the command "xf86config". Following the prompts answering the questions appropriately for your system. In most cases, you will need to select "3Dlabs Oxygen GMX" as the graphics adapter, which is usually configured with 8192K bytes of memory. Once this process is completed, you should be able to run the command "startx" to make use of the graphical interface.
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