On Sunday 12 September 2004 20:32, othman El Moulat wrote: > Hi guys; > I have the Linux Mandrake 7.2 installed in my computer and i want to > upgrade to mandrake 10... can i download it from internet ? > I have an Internet ADSL connection configured to work with a Sagem Modem > working on the windows M $ ;-) Actually i could not configured my mdk 7.2 > to have internet connection for this ADSL modem(it needs mdk 9.0 or plus) I > also don't have a CD burner... > is there any way i can download the mdk 10 and install it in these > circumstances ? > > thanks indeed for helping
Hmm you have gone a long time between updates!! You will find 10.0 has changed a lot since 7.2 :-) I have never tried it myself, but there is a way for you to install Mandrake from a folder on a Windows hard drive. If you copy the whole of the Mandrake distribution (not the ISO image) into a folder on your Windows partition. You can then create a boot floppy and configure the floppy to boot from the hard drive. Here is a mirror to download the distro ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/10.0/i586 Copy everything in this location into a Windows folder. Then read the instructions to create a boot floppy here ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/10.0/i586/install.htm You must modify the boot floppy to boot from the hard drive. Instructions to do that are here http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/hd_grub.cgi Then its just a matter of booting from the CD and Mdk 10.0 will (hopefully) install. I hope that works. As I say I have never tried it. Good luck derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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