On Thu March 11 2004 10:53 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > > > > Can 10.0 be installed from ISO files on my hard drive. > > (I want a complete install of 10.0 not upgrade.) > > As long is home is a separate partition and you have no plans to > resize, you're safe there. I would really just keep a copy of > /etc since all config info is there and my /boot/grub/menu.lst > because I use grub. The only other thing you would probably need > is /usr/local if you added anything there.
Thanks for your reply It looks like you answered my Mandrake 10.0 Community Pre-install ? question here. I changed my mind. The 3 Mandrake 10.0 ISO files are now on a 120GB USB external hard drive. I can plug external hard drive into the wife's laptop. I will burn the 3 Cd's using Windows XP on her laptop. This my be better in the long run as I know MS-Windows and I am a Linux [newbie]. On Thu March 11 2004 12:21 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Thursday 11 March 2004 12:06 pm, Rich and Cheryl Swanson wrote: > > I don't think you can install directly from ISO image files, > > they have to be expanded or whatever > > you do to ISO files before you can use them > > You can mount the first iso only as a loopback and boot from it > to do a basesystem install, but you cannot switch disks. If you > want to run the installer from the hard disk, you are better off > mounting the iso's as a loopback and copying the contents of all > three into one merged tree, and then regenerate the hdlists. Mounting the iso's as a loopback and copying the contents of all three into one merged tree, and then regenerate the hdlists? Easy for you to say. That would take some time for me a [newbie] to do I can burn the 3 Cd's in a lot less time. I think I will tackle this some other time after I know Linux better. My home is a separate partition, but I do plan on resizing. May be I should clarify just what I want to do and why. The why 1. My CD burner will not work with Linux. 2. Can't make computer boot to CD have boot floppy disks. 3. I have lots of room to work with on external hard drive. 4. I have no choice need Windows XP reinstall on this computer. 5. Will have to make a boot partition for Windows XP. 6. Because of 4 & 5 above all current partition will have to be changed What I think I want to do? 1. Make coppies of /home, /etc and /usr/local (done this) 2. Burn the 3 MDK 10.0 Cd's (will start this in a few min.) 3. Delete all partition on hd0 (start with a clean slate) 4. Make 4 GB partition, Install Windows XP and 2 programs I can't replace with any Linux apps. 5. Boot to floppy (this worked for MDK 9.2) 6. Install MDK 10.0 into remaining 6 GB of hd0. Now that I know a little bit more about Linux there will be a lot less stuff install with MDK 10.0 than what I installed with 9.2. Like I will install KDE and not have gnome, Icewrm, and all of the others that where installed when I had 9.2 install everything. I will see what 10.0 has to offer and take some time picking what I know I need now. I can always add other stuff later if needed. Thanks -- Ray Hogaboom
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