David Guntner wrote: > 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.
When I do hd installs, I have separate RPMS, RPMS2, RPMS3, etc. under Mandrake. I * think* this is necessary as there are hdlist1.cz, hdlist2.cz, etc. in /base, one for each RPMS directory. If you get stuck, here is a stripped-down howto I wrote: 1. Make about 2G partition (e.g. /iso); here, beta2 uses 2070000 1K-blocks; installer will save this partition as /mnt/hd for rpm repository. 2. mount <CD1.iso> /mnt/disk -t iso9660 -o loop 3. cp -ax /mnt/disk/* /iso 4. umount /mnt/disk 5. Repeat for CD2 and CD3 6. dd if=/iso/images/hd.img of=/dev/fd0 7. Boot the hd.img floppy, give the /iso partition, no directory need be specified if isos have been copied to top level of the partition; just OK.
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