I had that same problem - What I finally had to do was get rid of the separate "...\CD1", "...\CD2", "...\CD3" directories. I made one "?:\MNDRK81" directory and copied all three CDs into that one. Made a boot floppy with the HD img, and installed from there....
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Femme > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 1:57 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Laptop question > > > 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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