On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 22:19, Miark wrote:
> 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
If I remember right it's urpmi.addmedia --distrib <name>
>From the man page.
--distrib
Add all media from an installation medium. <name> is used with
medium name found to create newer medium name in urpmi database.
The with [...] is not used as hdlist found on installation
medium are used automatically.
>
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