Thanks, I'm going to try to make some iso's this afternoon. By the way, I realize that the problem is not the Mandrake cd's. But the Dell laptops (at least mine, Inspiron 7500) don't seem to be able to read ANY 80min disks, whether or not they are filled to capacity.
- Paul On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 10:50, Murray J. Root wrote: > On 11 Aug 2002 10:30:50 -0400 > Paul Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just tried cd3 and I am getting the same results as with cd1 and cd2. > > The cd drive spins and spins for a few minutes and then stops, not > > recognizing the cd. > > > > I'm not really sure how to burn a copy of the mirror, not using the > > iso's. I understand how to use rsync to copy the files from a mirror to > > my machine, but not how to put the installer etc. onto cds. > > > > Thanks for helping me out with this. > > mkcd --discsize (size you want in bytes) -a </path/to/mirror/of/cooker/i586> > > If you want just a standard 650M CD you can leave out the discsize. > > This will make the ISOs in ./iso/Cooker > > cdrecord speed=<speed> dev=<scsi,dev,id> <iso.name> > will burn them > > -- > Murray J. Root > ------------------------------------------------ > DISCLAIMER: http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ > ------------------------------------------------ > Mandrake on IRC > #mandrake & #mandrake-linux = help for newbies (irc.openprojects.net) > #mdk-cooker = Mandrake Cooker (irc.openprojects.net) > #mandrakeguru = merged with #mandrake on irc.oftc.net
