On Friday 03 Jan 2003 2:25 am, A. Contreras wrote: > I'm curious (and please, if this is covered in a FAQ, point me in the right > direction). > > Say you have a machine with 9.0 installed, and on your network you have > another machine that you can't get to install it and you suspect the CDROM > is to blame. Short of taking a CDROM from one into the other, , can you use > one to install the other? > > A. Contreras > My C&R website: > http://www.elnonio.dns04.com >
Yes. One way of doing it is to mount the CD images as loopback file systems, and then export them as NFS shares. On the computer you want to boot you then boot from floppy using the 'network' boot image you will find on a Mandrake mirror site. A network install allows you to boot from an FTP site, or an NFS share. Just follow the prompts. This is 'mentioned' in the Mandrake installer instructions, but not really covered in depth. Once you are installed, if you then declare your software sources in Mandrake Software Manager to be ftp sites instead of Cd's you can manage without CDs altogether. It is even possible to manage without a floppy drive so long as your computer BIOS is able to perform a PXE network boot to acquire the boot image. derek > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Derek Jennings > Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 7:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Failed install > > On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 10:06 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "mycal62" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 3:51 AM > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Failed install > > > > Thanks for the reply. > > > > > Hi , > > > > > > First , it can be quite frustrating to go through an install as you > > > did. > > > > > > two things come to mind to ask though, > > > > > > were the cd's given you copies of downloaded iso's? or original cd's ? > > > > The CD-R's given to me were burned from downloaded ISO images. The guy > > at work claimed he used them already numerous times, so I'm sure the > > problem is with my old 2x CD-ROM. > > > > > Before you give up ( hopefully you haven't yet ) try another cd drive, > > > and or new/origianl disks ( if they weren't ). > > > > I'll definitely reinstall when the rewriteable gets here. I just think, > > as > > > I stated in my original note, that the install process is poorly > > designed. The failures I encountered were in non-critical packages, so it > > should > > have > > > just said so and finished the installation. > > If your CD drive is old, it may not be able to read the 700MB CDs Mandrake > 9.0 > requires. A lot of people have reported trouble with older CD drives. > A set of 650 Mb images is available for Mandrake Club members if you are > desperate, but it is easier to just do a network install from an FTP site. > (So long as you have broadband) > > > derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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