On Wednesday 02 October 2002 11:38, Buchan Milne wrote: > Trent M. Gunnarson wrote: > > I've worked with Warly and Spence (sounds like a law firm) for a week now > > and the farthest we've gotten is 'hmm, it's not supposed to do that'. I > > appreciate the help, but nothing has been resolved. If the tool works > > under 8.2 for creating 9.0 ISOs, let me know; otherwise tell me that I > > need to upgrade first and I'll download the ISO set *AND* the Release > > tree including RPMS/SRPMS/contribs/unsupported/MandrakeClub/TEXSTAR > > packages and burn my own ISO's in whatever fashion necessary and *NOT* > > look to anyone else for support of the mkcd tool; I'll consider it's > > inapplicable. > > No need to download ISOs also, do an HD install ... make a boot floppy > from the hd.img, boot it up, and install ...
That would work if we're only talking about installing on one machine. I have half a dozen in my home alone, not all of them are networked. I'm also providing cd sets to friends to convert them to Mandrake. My Firewall/LAN server is a Mandrake 8.2 stock install w/ updates and it holds my data repository for the home network. The NFS install went alright once I got past the hurdle of 'not resolving hostname' or some such message that stopped things before they got started. I had to plug in my ISP's DNS in order to do an NFS install on a private home network (Class C) using DHCP and a caching nameserver ? I love Mandrake and brag to everyone I know about its merits versus the 4 other distros I've used, but the smoothest install still seems to be using your release cd set. I just have to stop grumbling every time it asks me to switch cds :-) Especially in the light of all the trouble I've had in the last 2 weeks trying to create those self-same ISOs from the package mirror on a Mandrake 8.2 system :-/ -- Sincerely, Trent M. Gunnarson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
