Download RescueCD from : Rescue CD. PLD rescue new is preferred.

Use for example cfdisk to partition your destination disk. Usually root partition (/) and swap is enough.
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Initiate swap space:

# mkswap /dev/sda1

Make filesystem (ex. ext4):

# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2

We need to create mountpoint and mount partition into it:

# mkdir /pld
# mount /dev/sda2 /pld

If more partitions are going to be used (like you want to have separate /boot or /home) then these need to be mounted now, too.

RescueCD and installed PLD system will use the same way of configuring network.

By default both try to use DHCP to automatically configure network interface during a boot process. If that works for you you don't need to do anything.

If manual configuration is required then configure networking using files below.

Assume you want 192.168.0.2 with /24 network (CIRD notation is preferred)

DEVICE=eth0
IPADDR=192.168.0.2/24
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none

enable networking, ipv4 networking, set default gateway and interface which should be used to reach geteway:

NETWORKING=yes
IPV4_NETWORKING=yes
GATEWAY=192.168.0.254
GATEWAYDEV=eth0

Add default nameservers:

nameserver 1.1.1.1
nameserver 8.8.8.8

# service network restart

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

_arch   = x86_64

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

poldek> install LIST OF PACKAGES REQUIRED FOR RUNNING SYSTEM

Packages which make sense to be installed:

udev pwdutils dhcpcd poldek vim geninitrd grub2 e2fsprogs

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# mount -o bind /proc /pld/proc
# mount -o bind /sys /pld/sys
# mount -o bind /dev /pld/dev

Configure /pld/etc/fstab ex.:

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

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# poldek --root /pld -i kernel

Edit /pld/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

Edit /pld/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

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

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