Copyright © 2004 - 2007 StartCom Ltd. All rights reserved.
The contents of this DVD-ROM are Copyright (c) 2004-2007 StartCom Ltd. and others. Refer to the individual copyright notices in each source package for distribution terms. The distribution terms of the tools copyrighted by StartCom Ltd. are as noted in the file EULA.
MediaHost™ and StartSSL™ are trademarks of StartCom Ltd. Linux® is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. RPM® is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc.
All other product names mentioned herein and throughout the entire web sites of StartCom and StartCom Linux distribution packages are trademarks of their respective owners.
StartCom Linux is delivered on multiple CD-ROMs consisting of an installation DVD-ROM.
The installation DVD-ROM can be directly booted into the installation on most modern systems, and contains the following directory structure (where /mnt/cdrom is the mount point of the DVD-ROM):
/mnt/cdrom
|----> StartCom
| |----> RPMS -- binary packages
| `----> base -- information on this release of StartCom
| Linux used by the installation
| process
|----> images -- boot and driver disk images
|----> isolinux -- Files used for booting from CD
|----> repodata -- Package index
|----> README -- this file
|----> RELEASE-NOTES -- the latest information about this release
| of StartCom Linux
`----> RPM-GPG-KEY -- GPG signature for packages from StartCom
If you are setting up an installation tree for NFS, FTP, or HTTP installations, you must copy the RELEASE-NOTES files and all files from the StartCom directory from the DVD-ROM. On Linux and UNIX systems, the following process will properly configure the target directory on your server.
Insert DVD-ROM
mount /mnt/cdrom
cp -a /mnt/cdrom/StartCom <target-directory>
umount /mnt/cdrom
(Where <target-directory> represents the path to the directory to contain the installation tree.)
Do not copy the Extras CD-ROM, or any of the layered product CD-ROMs, as this will overwrite files necessary for Anaconda's proper operation.
These CD-ROMs must be installed after StartCom Linux has been installed.
Most computers can now automatically boot from DVD-ROMs. If you have such a machine (and it is properly configured) you can boot the StartCom Linux Installation DVD-ROM directly. After booting, the StartCom Linux installation program will start, and you will be able to install your system from the DVD-ROM.
The images/ directory contains the file boot.iso. This file is an ISO image that can be used to boot the StartCom Linux installation program. It is a handy way to start network-based installations. To use boot.iso, your computer must be able to boot from its CD-ROM drive, and its BIOS settings must be configured to do so. You must then burn boot.iso onto a recordable/rewriteable CD-ROM.
Another image file contained in the images/ directory is diskboot.img. This file is designed for use with USB pen drives (or other bootable media with a capacity larger than a diskette drive). Use the dd command to write the image.
The ability to use this image file with a USB pen drive depends on the ability of your system's BIOS to boot from a USB device.
For those that have web access, refer to http://linux.startcom.org. In particular, access to our support lists can be found at: