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
>
>
>
>
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