On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 23:48, you wrote: > Ok, I did a lot of research and the whole rtfm thing. I am still getting
[ ... ] > Sorry to be so verbose but I am still learning my way round the CLI (and > doing a piss poor job might I add). You need to come to a few sessions about the UNIX shells at the OSTC. ( Get your employer to pay. We'll charge him a figure he'd like to hear. ) Anybody else interested? ( Sorry about the shameless plug, but it is on topic ) Those silver discs I gave you may well not be up to par. They were cheap ones from that red shack. Here are the md5sums for the Mandrake-9.0 disks. f7a093af34b8cbe1abc165213fea9deb Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso 05a3ccafaacc37d6d1e2f260fc274549 Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso 1a2fd731fb6e30d39b0b99f504b231b3 Mandrake90-cd3-i18n.i586.iso Sorry I don't have the md5sum for the Liberation Front's disc immediately to hand. I'm sure you know where to find it. Copy the discs from the cdrive with a series of commands such as this:- mkdir -p /where/you/wish/to/put/the/images/ cd $_ dd if=/dev/hd<the letter for the cd> of=./Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso You don't really have to worry about the bs or count stuff, It'll speed things up a bit but not by much. Alternatively you could also just simply put:- cat /dev/hd<the letter for the cd> > ./Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso I'm sure you appreciate that the nomenclature "<the letter for the cd>" means that you replace the whole string of characters, including the '<' and '>' ones with a single 'b', 'c', or 'd' character as the case may be. to check the md5sum of the image file once it's on you hard drive just say:- md5sum Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso If everything has happened correctly it will print the line:- f7a093af34b8cbe1abc165213fea9deb Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso If you get messages about I/O errors, or a different number then the copying process has failed. If it does it twice, then the CD is crook, and I'll go along to that red shack of an emporium and demand a refund very loudly. -- C. S.
