I just wanted to thank you guys for this thread, it's one of the very few that are so awesome I save them in a special folder and copy the basic information over into my running journal of Linux knowledge. Thanks again.
Isaac On Sunday 18 August 2002 23:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 23:11:30 -0400, Matthew O. Persico spaketh: > >>On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 22:30:32 -0400, tarvid spaketh: > >>[snip] > >> > >>>To make life easy would this work? > >> > >>I tried it; see below > >> > >>>mkdir /iso > >>>dd if=/mnt/cdrom of=/iso/cd1 > >> > >>This has to be changed to > >> > >> dd if/dev/cdrom of=/iso/cd1 > > grrrrr! make that > dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/iso/cd1 > > >>Ditto for cd2 and cd3 > >> > >>>mkdir /mnt/cd1 > >>>mkdir /mnt/cd2 > >>>mkdir /mnt/cd3 > >>> > >>>mount -t iso9660 -o loop /iso/cd1 /mnt/cd1 > >>>mount -t iso9660 -o loop /iso/cd2 /mnt/cd2 > >>>mount -t iso9660 -o loop /iso/cd3 /mnt/cd3 > >>> > >>>urpmi.addmedia file://mnt.cd1 > >> > >>This has to be changed to > >> > >> urpmi.addmedia 'mdk 8.2 cd1 iso' file://mnt/cd1 > >> > >>The name is required and the file:// spec had a typo. > >>Ditto for cd2 and cd3 > >> > >>Jim, thanks. This is so cool. Moreover, 'mdk 8.2 cd1 iso' also > >>showed up as a valid resource in rpmdrake. That means once you > >>install all three disks this way, you could remove the CD resources > >>from rpmdrake if you wanted. > >> > >>-- > >>Matthew O. Persico > > -- > Matthew O. Persico > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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