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If your machine doesn't support CD booting, but you do have a CD set, you can use an alternative strategy such as <phrase condition="supports-floppy-boot">floppy disk,</phrase> <phrase arch="s390">tape, emulated tape,</phrase> <phrase condition="bootable-disk">hard disk,</phrase> <phrase condition="bootable-usb">usb stick,</phrase> <phrase condition="supports-tftp">net boot,</phrase> or manually loading the kernel from the CD to initially boot the system installer. The files you need for booting by another means are also on the CD; the Debian network archive and CD folder organization are identical. So when archive file paths are given below for particular files you need for booting, look for those files in the same directories and subdirectories on your CD.

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If you don't have a CD set, then you will need to download the installer system files and place them on the <phrase arch="s390">installation tape</phrase> <phrase condition="supports-floppy-boot">floppy disk or</phrase> <phrase condition="bootable-disk">hard disk or</phrase> <phrase condition="bootable-usb">usb stick or</phrase> <phrase condition="supports-tftp">a connected computer</phrase> so they can be used to boot the installer.

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If you choose to boot from ARC console firmware using <command>MILO</command>, you will also need to prepare a disk containing <command>MILO</command> and <command>LINLOAD.EXE</command> from the provided disk images. See <xref linkend="alpha-firmware"/> for more information on Alpha firmware and boot loaders. The floppy images can be found in the <filename>MILO</filename> directory as <filename>milo_<replaceable>subarchitecture</replaceable>.bin</filename>.

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Unfortunately, these <command>MILO</command> images could not be tested and might not work for all subarchitectures. If you find it doesn't work for you, try copying the appropriate <command>MILO</command> binary onto the floppy (<ulink url="&disturlftp;main/disks-alpha/current/MILO/"></ulink>). Note that those <command>MILO</command>s don't support ext2 <quote>sparse superblocks</quote>, so you can't use them to load kernels from newly generated ext2 file systems. As a workaround, you can put your kernel onto the FAT partition next to the <command>MILO</command>.

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A firmware image is provided for the Linksys NSLU2 which will automatically boot <classname>debian-installer</classname>. This image can be uploaded via the Linksys web frontend or with upslug2. This firmware image can be obtained from &nslu2-firmware-img;.

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Some m68k subarchs have a choice of kernels to install. In general we recommend trying the most recent version first. If your subarch or machine needs to use a 2.2.x kernel, make sure you choose one of the images that supports 2.2.x kernels (see the <ulink url="&disturl;/main/installer-&architecture;/current/images/MANIFEST">MANIFEST</ulink>).

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If you can't boot (IPL) from the CD-ROM and you are not using VM you need to create an IPL tape first. This is described in section 3.4.3 in the <ulink url="http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/pubs/pdfs/redbooks/sg246264.pdf"> Linux for IBM eServer zSeries and S/390: Distributions</ulink> Redbook. The files you need to write to the tape are (in this order): <filename>kernel.debian</filename>, <filename>parmfile.debian</filename> and <filename>initrd.debian</filename>. The files can be downloaded from the <filename>tape</filename> sub-directory, see <xref linkend="where-files"/>.

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Disk images are files containing the complete contents of a floppy disk in <emphasis>raw</emphasis> form. Disk images, such as <filename>boot.img</filename>, cannot simply be copied to floppy drives. A special program is used to write the image files to floppy disk in <emphasis>raw</emphasis> mode. This is required because these images are raw representations of the disk; it is required to do a <emphasis>sector copy</emphasis> of the data from the file onto the floppy.

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No matter which method you use to create your floppies, you should remember to flip the write-protect tab on the floppies once you have written them, to ensure they are not damaged unintentionally.

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To write the floppy disk image files to the floppy disks, you will probably need root access to the system. Place a good, blank floppy in the floppy drive. Next, use the command <informalexample><screen>
$ dd if=<replaceable>filename</replaceable> of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 conv=sync ; sync
</screen></informalexample> where <replaceable>filename</replaceable> is one of the floppy disk image files. <filename>/dev/fd0</filename> is a commonly used name of the floppy disk device, it may be different on your workstation<phrase arch="sparc"> (on Solaris, it is <filename>/dev/fd/0</filename>)</phrase>. The command may return to the prompt before Unix has finished writing the floppy disk, so look for the disk-in-use light on the floppy drive and be sure that the light is out and the disk has stopped revolving before you remove it from the drive. On some systems, you'll have to run a command to eject the floppy from the drive <phrase arch="sparc"> (on Solaris, use <command>eject</command>, see the manual page)</phrase>.