On Friday 27 September 2002 11:08 pm, you wrote:
> s wrote:
> > On Friday 27 September 2002 09:17 pm, Seedkum Aladeem wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > The md5sum check on the three LM9.0 ISO files I down loaded was
> > > fine. I proceeded to install LM9.0 using the Hard Disk install
> > > procedure and that is where I came across some problems. The
> > > installer asked me about the directory or ISO file of the Mandrake
> > > Linux Distribution. I gave it the path to where I had the three ISO
> > > files. It came back with this error message:
> > >
> > > "I can't find the Mandrake Linux Distribution in the specified
> > > directory, (I need the Subdirectory /mandrake/base/). Here's a
> > > short extract of the files in the Directory:
> > > Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso
> > > Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso
> > > mandrake90-cd3-i18n.i586.iso
> > > md5sum.90"
> > >
> > > Then I tried again and I gave it the path as
> > > ...../Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso and it proceeded with the
> > > install. However it gave me many error messages saying that some
> > > rpm files were missing, like the Open Office files and many others.
> > > It appears it did not see the other ISO files.
> > >
> > > Is there a work around to make see the other ISO files?
> >
> > Well, this may not be the way you want, but I found it works well.  I
> > mount the isos as loop one at a time and copy them to a directory to
> > install from.  Fast accurate installs result.  For example:
> >
> > mkdir /mnt/loop
> > mkdir /path/mandrake
> > mount /path/Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso -o loop /mnt/loop
> > cp -r /mnt/loop/* /path/mandrake/
> > umount /mnt/loop
> > mount /path/Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso -o loop /mnt/loop
> > cp -r /mnt/loop/* /path/mandrake
> > umount /mnt/loop
> > mount /path/Mandrake90-cd3-i18n.i586.iso -o loop /mnt/loop
> > cp -r /mnt/loop/* /path/mandrake
> > umount /mnt/loop
> >
> > hth,
> > -s
>
> I will try this and see if it will work for me now that the base system
> appears to be working. However, shouldn't the initial install be able to
> see all three ISOs? It is able to read one why can't it read the other
> two? I think that would have been better.
>
> Thankx,
>
> Seedkum
are you mounting the isos as an iso filesystem?


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