Hi thanks for the reply. Well I want to know (before starting) that I have Mandrake 9.2 RC2 installed, and I have WinXP running too.
Basically if I do the floppy boot, and let it run, I won't be able to do anything I presume. Anyway, that seems ok. The problem is that will it screw up my previous installation or something of XP and RC2. I do want it to go in the RC2 partition that I've created. Thanks. P.S. - Does anybody know when the ISO's come out ? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 8:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Raw tree installation of mdk 9.2 Mukul Sabharwal wrote: >Hi, > >How does one install the Raw tree 9.2 download edition. Do I just >download the whole contents. > >Then just burn them ? On to 3 CD's? > >Thanks > > Easier and faster to just download the network.img file from the /images directory on any of the mirrors. Then (assuming you're already running linux) from the comand line (as root, from the directory where you saved the image) type: dd if=network.img of=/dev/fd0 If you are currently running some MS OS you can use rawrite to do the same thing. See: http://gulus.usherb.ca/pub/Mandrake/9.2/i586/INSTALL.txt This will write the network boot image to a floppy. Write down the ftp address of the mirror (european mirrors are generally faster). Boot from the floppy and install directly from the mirror. You will have to know what settings you use for your broadband (ie. all I need to know is that my cable modem gets an IP address using DHCP). Specify the ftp site you want to install from and you're good to go. A big advantage of an ftp install is that you only download the packages you actually want to install (total install time for me, including downloading = aprox. 2 hrs). And if (when) you decide to install more packages later you don't have to swap disks because urpmi is allready set up to get them from the mirror. Hope this helps. Feel free to ask if you need more help, that's what we're here for. Joe.
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