The installation process assumes that your hard drive BIOS geometry settings are based on `LBA mode'. If your hard drive has more than 1023 cylinders, then the BIOS should be set to remap the geometry so that it appears to have no more than 1023 cylinders. If it is possible to have your BIOS use a mapped geometry with 16 heads and 63 sectors per track, and still have 1023 or fewer cylinders, then you should do so. If your hard drive is larger than about 500 Megabytes then you will not be able to do that, so you should select a mapped geometry with 16 heads and 255 sectors per track.
The next step is to boot the system so that the installation program can be run. If you have a CD-ROM, and your BIOS supports booting from CD-ROM, this is the easiest approach; simply use your BIOS configuration editor to set the boot order to boot from CD-ROM first.
If your BIOS does not support booting from CD-ROM, you have two choices: booting from MS-DOS, or making a boot floppy. To boot from MS-DOS, start MS-DOS with no protected mode drivers such as HIMEM.SYS loaded, but with CD-ROM and MSCDEX drivers loaded. Insert the CEQURUX CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive, change to the CD-ROM drive, and enter the command `install'. This will run the MS-DOS batch file `install.bat', which will load the installation program directly from the CD-ROM.
Alternatively, to create a boot diskette, you will need to copy the file `boot.flp' from the `floppies' directory on the CEQURUX CD-ROM to a blank formatted floppy disk. You can do this copy from a UNIX system using the `dd' command; for example:
dd if=/cdrom/floppies/boot.flp of=/dev/fd0
From MS-DOS you can use the `rawrite' utility
in the `tools' directory on the CD-ROM. Change to the `floppies'
directory and run the command `\tools\rawrite'.
You will be asked what file you wish to write;
enter `boot.flp'. You will then be asked what drive you wish to
write the file to; typically you would enter `a:'.
Once you have written the boot diskette, you can begin the installation by placing the diskette in the primary floppy drive, and the CEQURUX CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive, and rebooting the machine from the floppy.