On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: > hm... well... I usually just tell it to open up all the packages on the > tree into a tree-like structure. Have to look for that symbol now. > > This raises a new Question though. I've tried twice now to install from > my HDD and heres what I do: > > Make bootfloppy with the hd.img file form the CD's using RawWrite. > Floppys fine. > > Comp boots off of floppy > > Installer asks where the files it wants to use are located, so i point > it to "hdb1/mandrake" where resided all the files in their default > folders I copied from the CD's. (I had tried yesterday to make it so > that there was a structure to that directory like so: > hdb1/mandrake/cd1... /cd2... /cd3.) In both cases the install gets > through * I believe * the first CD's worth of files then gives me an > error about packages having trouble being installed. > > Help? Could they just be corrupt packages & I must re-copy them from > CD? Or should I put all the packages into one dir & let it install that > way? IE, hdb1/mandrake/* (all files under just the mandrake dir, no > directories in there).
Femme, you will indeed need to have all the files in one parent dir. i.e. hdb1/mandrake/cd1/* give that a try. I have a feeling it will do much better. -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!"
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