[newbie] urpmi and putting disks on HD

[Kevin B. O'Brien]

I looked at the urpmi page in the TWiki, and saw that it should be possible 
to copy the install disks to my hard drive and make urpmi look there 
instead of asking for the CDs. But I cannot follow the directions as written.

1. The directions state that I should copy the /base and /Mandrake 
directories from CD1. But I do not see either of these directories on any 
of my CDs. I have the 6 CD set as a Mandrake club member.

2. I did copy, I think, the 6 CDs to my hard drive. I say "I think" because 
while the first one took a while to copy, the others went very quickly, 
which makes me think that something may not be right. I looked inside each 
directory, and saw that RPMs are listed as being there, but I don't see how 
a whole CD can be copied in like 10 seconds.

3. If I don't have a /base or /Mandrake directory, can I configure urpmi to 
work with the CD copies on my hard drive?

Thank you,
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