On Thursday 30 October 2003 08:29 pm, Mukul Sabharwal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How does one install the Raw tree 9.2 download edition. Do I just
> download the whole contents.
>
> Then just burn them ? On to 3 CD's?
>
There are many ways. The following is excerpted from the cooker twiki at
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CookerHowTo
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Via FTP from a Public Mirror
Make a bootdisk from the network.img file available on any of the public
Cooker mirrors. The file should be located within the cooker/i586/images/
directory of the mandrake-devel tree on the mirror. If you are already
running Linux, you can use dd to copy it to a floppy disk
dd if=network.img of=/dev/fd0
If you are not already running Linux, you can use the rawwrite utility to make
the boot disk in DOS or Windows. This utility is normally located in the
/mandrake/i586/dosutils directory of the mandrake-devel tree.
If your system has no floppy drive, you can burn the image (network.img,
pcmcia.img, or whatever) to a bootable CD-ROM.
mkdir image
cp network.img image
mkisofs -b network.img image > network.iso
cdrecord dev=0,0,0 network.iso
rm -fr image
From a Local Mirror
If you have about 6GB of diskspace available, it is faster and easier to
install from a local mirror on your hard disk or on a local server. There are
even scripts available to make a set of iso images that can be burned to cd
to install in the traditional way. Use fmirror or rsync to create a local
mirror and keep it up to date.
Via NFS Over the Local Network
Use the network.img image to create a boot floppy using one of the methods
described above and select NFS instead of ftp.
Via Hard Disk Install
If your local mirror is on a partition that is on the machine you intend to
install Cooker on, use the hd.img floppy image to create a boot floppy using
one of the methods described above.
Via Hard Disk or Network with No Floppy or CD-ROM
Some machines nowadays do not have a floppy drive or a cd-rom. How does one do
an installation without either of those. Well thanks to some enterprising
young cookers, We have figured out how to boot the installer from the LILO or
GrUB menu.
Extract the necessary files from the appropriate floppy image. To do this,
mount the floppy image as a loopback device in your tmp directory and then
copy the appropriate files to your boot directory.
cd /path/to/hd.img
mount -t vfat hd.img ~/tmp/ -o loop=/dev/loop3
cp ~/tmp/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz-hdimg
cp ~/tmp/hd.rdz /boot
umount ~/tmp
Make an entry in /etc/lilo.conf if you use LILO or /boot/grub/menu.lst if you
use GrUB
Example entry for LILO bootloader
image=/boot/vmlinuz-hdimg
label=hd-install
root=/dev/ram3
initrd=/boot/hd.rdz
append="ramdisk_size=32000"
vga=791
read-only
As always, after you have finished editing /etc/lilo.conf, you need to run
/sbin/lilo before your changes take effect.
Example entry for GrUB bootloader
title hd-install
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-hdimg root=/dev/ram3 ramdisk_size=32000
vga=791
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/hd.rdz
If you want to do the same thing but are installing from an NFS or FTP source,
just use the network.img floppy image instead of the hd.img floppy image.
Making CD's with MakeCD
MakeCD is a wrapper script that runs mkcd, and it will create a set of iso's
for you to burn to CD. If you have a local Cooker mirror, it is quite easy to
make you own set of disk's.
It is a script located in the misc directory of the distribution tree that
will make a set of ISO images to burn to CDR. The basic syntax for automatic
operation is:
./misc/MakeCD -a ./
To limit the number of ISO images that are created, use the -c option followed
by the number of disks you want:
./misc/MakeCD -a -c 2 ./
By default, the script makes ISO images that will fit on 650MB blanks. If you
want to change this, use the --discsize option to select an alternative image
size:
./misc/MakeCD --discsize 700m -a ./
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