Rolf Pedersen grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> David Guntner wrote:
> >
> > 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.
Ok, good point. I'll rearrange the Mandrake directory to have those three
RPMS directories and then try to do the install. Wish me luck. :-)
--Dave
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