On Wednesday 30 July 2003 05:28 pm, Felix Miata wrote: > With 9.0 and previous, I extracted the contents of the iso's to one > partition and installed from there. I since did a RedHat hd install, and > it only wanted to know the location of the iso files. That was very > convenient, so on this 9.1 install, I didn't extract the iso contents > first. When this install started, it only asked the location and name of > one iso. I proceeded anyway, thinking the installer must be smart enough > to find the other two co-located iso's when it needed them. > > Apparently not. I get about 1/3 through "installing packages", and every > subsequent package generates a generic "error installing" message and > wants to know if I want to continue anyway. I clicked yes to go on > anyway a couple dozen times now and see no improvement. It makes me > think this installer to too dumb to use the #2 & #3 iso files to keep on > going. > > Am I wrong? Must I extract all iso contents the old fashioned way in > order to get a full install?
Using this method right now, yes, but I do recall a conversation on cooker ML where it was discussed to change this. -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx
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