ok, I was just hoping I could read the ISO directly... but I will just dump
them to a spare drive.
thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: Expert User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] installing from an iso...
> brk wrote:
>
> > I want to do the beta iso for mandrake 8, and am limited here at the
> > house. I have a single cable modem connection here at the house, and
> > no cd burner. I want to dl the iso from windows, copy it to a
> > partition, . I then wish to boot from a mandrake 7.1 cd and run the
> > install from ther.
> >
> >
> >
> > Can it happen this way? Whre is a nice how-to or memo that outlines
> > the steps.
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Bill Ries-Knight
> >
>
> If you have enough disk space, you can download the iso's and then mount
> them with loopback as a iso9660 volume, and then copy the data to some
> HDD on which you want to install this LM8 beta. Then create boot
> floppies from the images directory and use that boot floppies to do a
> HDD install.
>
> I doubt if you can use LM 7.1 floppy to boot though.
>
> -nak
>
>
>
