RE: [newbie] installation from hard disk

[Greg Martz]

I just did this, so let me tell you how I set up my HD.  Here are the steps:   1.  Create a directory off the root of your installation HD called mandrake 2.  Create the following directories under mandrake (base, instimage, mdkinst, rpms) 3.  Head to mandrake's FTP site, or your favorite mirror 4.  download *.* into each of the above directories.   Sounds like you are missing some critical files in the base directory.   Greg   -----Original Message----- From: Yantai Arts & Crafts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 3:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] installation from hard disk Hello,everybody,   I'm planning to install Mandrake 7.0 in my mini laptop,which doesn't have a CDRom, so I want to install from hard disk. I copied all the files to hard disk,made a bootable installation diskette using hd.img, and began the installation. But after I chose the parititon,format it,when the system looking for available packages, it gave an error report: missing some base files. I tried it on my desktop,there is the same error. Can anyone give me some suggestion about this problem? thank you.   Regards Liu