On Friday 20 June 2003 11:38 am, Isaac Curtis wrote: > Okay, I realize that 9/10 of my problems come from the fact I'm running > 8.0, but I don't have any $ to get ahold of 9.1. I've never done an > install except off CDs so could someone explain to me exactly what I'm > doing or RTFM me to the appropriate howto? I've gotten myself as far as > this page - http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3 - now I just need to > figure out what I need to DL and what I need to do with it once I've got > it. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks! > > Isaac
Darned easy, really. Copy the downloaded Mandrake to a partition on your harddrive (Windows, ext or ReiserFS). Be careful to maintain the hierarchy exactly as it would appear on the installation disks. You need a separate partition so that you can format all the other partitions, leaving the partiton containing the disks intact. On Dsk_1 there is a /images directory with an "hd.img" which is the hard-disk install floppy image. The Install.txt (also under Dsk_1) has a howto with instructions to make a bootdisk for the install. That is under the "Other Installation Methods" header of the Install.txt.
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