If you select the CD_BOOTDISK installation type, the Operating System dialog box will be displayed in addition to the dialog boxes described in section Creating an Installation Disk.

  1. In the navigation bar switch to Configuration > OS Installer >Boot Disk > Disk Configuration.
  2. Make the general settings.
  3. Select the operating system on the left side. Under Configuration, specify the path to an already existing, manually created operating system configuration.

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  1. Under Disk Configuration > Network Adapters, select the network adapter(s) which are available in the hardware of your infrastructure.

It is possible to select more than one network adapter. The number of network adapters is limited by the disk capacity.

  1. Click on Create floppy disk. In the Save Configuration dialog box, enter a name for your disk configuration and click on Save.
  2. Insert an empty floppy disk into the disk drive of your computer.

After clicking on Save, the disk inserted into the disk drive will be formatted without any further warning message. All data still on the disk will be deleted!

An image of the configuration is created and is saved on the disk. In the process, the disk is automatically formatted.

The installation disk has now been created successfully.

  1. Click on Create CD-ROM directory and specify to which directory the operating system files (including Service Pack, Internet Explorer, and Novell Client, if selected) are to be copied.
  2. Burn a CD with the entire contents of the selected directory.

The selected directory corresponds to the root directory of the CD.