Kirk McElhearn wrote:
> On 14/04/00 9:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is
> reported to have said:
>
> >> Does anyone know if there's a way to make installing Mandrake from the
> second
> >> hdd, hdb, work? I'm using a boot floppy created with or from the cdrom
> >hd.img
> >> file, but when booting with this diskette, the installation program only
> sees
> >> hda.
>
> I just installed a second version of Mandrake on my second HD. When you
> get to the DiskDrake section, you choose which HD to use.
>
> Kirk
I don't think we're using the same hd.img file, because the only hdd
partitions available with the hd.img I'm using are those on hda. This might
only be a discrepancy created by the people at Planete Linux mag., because the
cdrom I have was obtained with their mag, in a cellophane enclosed package
(not from a Mandrake boxed set); and, if not by them, then by who ever created
the cdrom for them.
We probably are using different installation programs and therefore a
different cdrom, because as explained in what you snipped out, when doing the
install from the cdrom and the installation gets past package selection and
everything before, the actual installation bugs up or out with a stupid
failure due to trying to install to var, usr, etcetera under /mnt, instead of
to /var, /usr, etcetera, and, again, this appears to be caused in the
install2.pm script or Perl package module. After examining the perl-install
programs, I'm certain the same thing will happen with a working hdd install,
but I'll be able to modify these scripts to work (I can't do that with the
cdrom).
I've been around a while; therefore, I'm not a newbie newbie, not even wrt
Linux.
mike
