Thanks to Todd and everyone else who offered helpful suggestions for the
problems I've been having as a result of the CD 2 ISO being too large. I
might actually be able to install a working system tonight when I get home
from work. :-)
I've created a /var/mandrake partition on my system. Under that, I've been
able to take the ISO files and mount them temporarily so that I can copy
the files off of them. What I've done is basically mirror the directory
structure that I've seen at the FTP mirrors containing the RPM files, so
that under that directory is the usual stuff pluse a Mandrake directory,
and under that, are base, RPMS, share, and mdkinst directories. I've
copied the contents of the RPMS, RPMS2 and RPMS3 directories from the
mounted CD image files to the RPMS directory in that tree. I've created a
boot diskette from the hd.img disk image. Hopefully, it will let me
specify /var/mandrake as my base installation source directory and work the
way an FTP install is supposed to. <fingers crossed>
If anyone knows of any reasons why my assumptions here are incorrect and
that my installation attempt is going to crash and burn, now would be a
great time to tell me. :-)
Again, thanks to all who have helped me through this.
--Dave
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