On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Tima Vaisburd wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> First of all, thanks for Mandrake.
> Probably it's a wrong list, nobody calls me an expert, but I myself
> think I'm not a beginner already ;-)
>
> I have a suggestion for a next version of Mandrake.
>
> Trying to burn Mandrake-6.0 CD and having a previous experience with
> RedHat 4.1 - 5.1, I downloaded the 6.0 tree and updates and then "cleverly"
> replaced the packages from Manrdake/RPMS with updated packages.
>
> Thought the disk will be "better than original". You know what happened
> then ;-)
>
> I've got a disk and tried to install, but the names of packages
> appeared to be hard-coded as a whole, the installation allowed me to
> choose packages, formatted partitions and then failed to find the kernel,
> lilo, initscripts etc. Linux went from the comp.
>
> So, I think it's maybe better to scan available packages before and
> choose existing ones for installation.
Attempting to regenerate the hdlist may not even be possible in install
stages, due to being on a cdrom.
> Also, the installator checks the available space, which is nice.
> Are the sizes hardcoded too? My next step would be to move Mandake/ tree
> to windows partition, change the names to 'before-upgrading' ones and
> try to install from that partition, but usually updated packages are
> bigger.
>
> Redards,
> Tima.
You'll need a working linux system to modify the packages,
cd to the root of the soon tobe cd and exec
misc/src/install/genhdlist ./
to get your updated packages into the hdlist
