I didn't burn the ISOs to CD (in part because they came down a bit large and wouldn't fit... don't ask me why, I didn't bother checking on this). Instead, dumped them on a partition to do an HD install.
Loopback mounted the first ISO to get the image. Booted and everything came up fine. Everything went fine until the install reached packages that would be in disc 2 or 3 then it had a fit. Now, *yes, I changed the names of the ISOs. Why? I type Dvorak and in the early stages, when the install is asking for the name and location of the first ISO, I have to "hunt and peck" so I shortened the names to such as "Drake-CD1.iso" which makes my life easier. <g> Thing is, the installer *and rpmdrake appear to insist on the full names rather than *asking. Okay so it's nit picking but it's very annoying. See, I went ahead and installed a very basic system then installed the rest using rpmdrake. But I had the discs named "Drake-CDx.iso" mounted loopback which did fine except that rpmdrake had a habit of looking for "Mandrake-blah-blah-long-name.iso," having fits, and even putting duplicates in the tree on the left hand side. I resorted to going down into /var/lib/urpmi and nuking out the lists for the long names of the CDs. After that, things were much better. I suppose this is all a rare enough case that it may not be top priority but it's an irritant that I can't tell the installer and rpmdrake "no, they're over THERE." <g> Mark
