iirc one can copy the contents of all the cds into one single directory stucture with cds 2 and 3 going under .../Mandrake/RPMS2 and ..../RPMS3 respectively, however the partition with the install files on it is then unavailable for installing onto and it might be nice to maximise the space available during the install by creating a partition just large enough for one cd - iso or contents, the hd.img can handle either, as i mentioned after install one can then install from the other cd's
before i forget, didn't there use to be a 'dosstart' boot method or somesuch where one could start the install from a dos prompt? perhaps if the laptop can be in dos with the cd drive recognised you could try this, i think there was/is a directory on cd1 with .bat file to launch under dos, anyway, once you have a partition with the iso or cd contents on you will need to know how to describe it to the install i.e. /dev/hda1 etc. the install will ask for the partition the file(s) are on and then for the directory they are in, if you feed the correct details then all should be plain sailing, if you don't get 'loading second stage' then the install is probably not able to find the install files, if you do and then it fails then either the file(s) are corrupt or there maybe some hardware problem/incompatiblity - obviously of you copy the cd onto a partition using windows it will be a fat16/32 - i'm not aware of that being a problem but i can't swear that the boot floppy kernel will recognise the full range of file systems - perhaps someone else could comment? you say you have tried this before and it didn't work, did you do anything different to what i have described? bascule On Thursday 11 July 2002 2:37 am, you wrote: > On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 19:27, bascule wrote: > > how big is the hard disk, if there is space and win is installed and you > > have the utilities to do it you could make room for a partition to copy > > one iso to and do a hard disk install using the hd.img on floppy, you > > could then > The HDD is only 4gb as far as I know. Now what you're suggesting is > perfectly feasible Bascule, except I tried this on my own desktop > machine not long ago & had zero luck with the installations. I gave up > & just went back to doing it by booting the CD's themselves. Now, iirc > when I did it on the desktop machine, I had copied all files from the > CD's onto the HDD (Not in ISO format) into one big directory. > > Any idea on how to do that & make it work? Or using the ISO Idea...same > thing. Because I sure couldn't manage to make it go last time. > > Femme -- ##########################
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