> 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

Hmm. That's kind of hard :(. I thought Miark summed it up best - the
installer can't ask for other CD's if the installer has to be on the
CD and not on a RAM disk. I'm not certain on memory requirements for
the installer. 

As I commented (to Miarks post) on the list it makes for difficulties
if the "other" cd's (2 &3) aren't as easily accessible as is the first
one. Ideally, you'd want them all available at once. One can do an
urpmi.addmedia after the fact (as I do, since physically I only have a
#1 CD and don't have a burner) but it has to be done after the initial
install, as far as I know.

My previous installs have been HD installs - I just pointed the
install to a place on my HD where I had all the packages downloaded
to. For 9.0 it's a bit more complex because 1) the HD install broke my
box, and 2) I have ISOs for the two other CD's and not the RPMs
themselves. So I elected to loopback mount the other 2 CD images some-
place, and after urpmi.addmedia, I can then just add packages in as
desired. 

Are you installing 9.0 fresh for the first time on a (new) PC,
or do you have a Linuxb setup already working? 

> -- j

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