On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 19:58, bascule wrote: > 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,
I hope so b/c this would likely work for it. > 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. > > you say you have tried this before and it didn't work, did you do anything > different to what i have described? > > bascule > > The way I tried this in the past was on a huge FAT32 partition I have on my secondary drive. I put all the files into one central directory called Mandrake, then under that: CD1, CD2, CD3. When I went to install I pointed the .img file to my partitions beforehand, and as I installed yes it asked for the files & where they were. Yet, no matter what I did, I couldn't get it to accept the directories I'd created for it. I don't know what I did wrong...? Tia Femme
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