How should the files be laid out on the FTP / NFS / HTTP server when preping them for a network install? Given that it's easy to simply use the loopback feature to the ISO images, should we consider allowing a structure of cd1 cd2 & cd3 instead of the way I understand it where you take:
Contents of cd1 Then add RPMS2 from 2nd CD and put it under /Mandrake from the first CD and the RPMS3 from the 3rd CD and add it also under /Mandrake from the first CD. I just performed a network install from a sight who graciously provided loopback images of the 9.2b1 install cds and it went about 1/3 of the way through the install and reported... "There was an error installing packages indexhtml-9.1-8mdk.noarch Go on anyway? y/n On the other hand, as someone suggested, I tried downloading straight from a mandrake-devel directory from a mirror which failed miserably indicating at first that it was Mandrake Cooker 9.2, but then many packages including termcap could not be loaded. Adding this ability for the network install to locate the RPMS2 and RPMS3 files in seperate file trees could significantly reduce the job of the mirror maintainers, and provide a way to reduce the disk space requirements for mirroring both ISOs and the file layout. (Maybe the disk space requirements could be handled with some fancy symbolic links) -Joe Baker
