On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 22:15:48 -0500 Jeremy Mereness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I was installing Mandrake 9.0 on a really small (32 Meg) PC. Usually, > the install asks what Mandrake cd's you have available, but each time I > tried with a low-resource PC, this was skipped. In the end, Mandrake was > only aware of the first cd. The installation program runs from a RAMdisk when you have 64MB or more of memory. If you have less, as you do, the installation program must run directly from the CD. Running from the CD means the CD cannot be unmounted until the end of the installation. Under that circumstance, it _can't_ ask for the other CDs. > I tried to use the Configure Sources tool in Mandrake Update to add the > two other download cd's, but couldn't get it to work. The tool would > always fail with "could not update media", even when I copied the > correct values from another, working installation. I dunno about this, but I would try using urpmi.addmedia instead. Miark
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