Pierre Fortin wrote: > > On 4 Oct 2001, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > >>Pierre Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>>Just tried to install 8.1 on another machine... >>> >>>Due to flaky CD reader, I copied all 3 images to HD and used hd.img... >>> >>>1. images were in /home/ISO... when asked for image location, only >>>directories in lowercase were presented; ISO was not listed. >>> >>lists first 5 entries in the directory, whatever they are. >> > > # ls /home > ISO/ httpd/ lonna/ lost+found/ pfortin/ src/ tmp/ usr/
> Any idea which 5 in this case...? Just wondering why the first (locale) > sorted would not show... > Because they are not locale sorted (you do not have any locale yet). They are presented in order readdir returns them. > >>>2. install proceeded to about the point where it should have asked for 2nd >>>image; instead it just started giving error messages about the modules. >>> >>yes, installing from multiple iso's is not supported. >> > > OK... but in a world of "when all else fails, RTFM" (meaning docs are a > last resort :^) should the install even ask the CD2 & CD3 question..? > Maybe there should be other option(s): > * CD2 > * CD3 > * this is not a CD install > > BTW, "INSTALL.txt" makes no mention in "4. Other installation methods" > that any of these methods don't support full installation... > Exactly. If you cannot install Mandrake from ISO do not offer it at all. Or provide some easy way to define packages that should be added after the basic system (from the firstISO) is installed. What I mean, is - you select packages normally - system installs only packages from the first ISO - after you boot your system you tell it to install the remaining packages The point is, you should not know *what* packages - the list must be built automatically. I was badly surprised when I installed Mdk8 from one CD and found that locales were on the second :( -andrej
