> Harold Hartley wrote:
> 
> is it possible to downloand the newer mandrake versions and install
> on system without burning to a CD as I have no rewritable CD on my
> system..

For unreleased Mandrake you can download (use rsync) from the mirror
sites:

1.  The 7.2beta tree (930MB), or

2.  The cooker tree (951MB), or

3.  The two iso images of 7.2beta 3.

1&2 are still very active - about 20 to 450 changed files a day.

You must download these into a partition that is big enough and other
than any which will be installed to.

All are installable without having to burn a CD by creating a floppy
from /images/hd.img as per the install instructions and booting from
it.

The Select partition dialog from hd.img has an option to load from a
loopback-mounted iso CD image file.

But there are problems:

1.  The 7.2b3 iso images are old and are missing about 20 RPMs. 
Don't bother.

2.  The iso option of the Select Partitions dialog does not work. 
Don't bother.

-- 
Regards,

Ron. [AU]

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