Hi Guys. I'm looking to install Mandrake 7.1 onto my laptop. In the absence of a CD burner, or enough disk space on my laptop, I decided to perform the following kludge: 1. Download the two iso images for Mandrake 7.1 from Mandrake's website onto my Wife's PC. 2. Boot her machine into Linux (I've stuck a basic UMSDOS Linux on there [Slackware's ZipSlack 7.1, in case it matters]). 3. Mount the iso images and copy the files out of them to another directory. 4. Reboot into Win98, laplink to my laptop (also booted into Win98) and copy the files over. 5. Reboot the laptop and perform a HD install. Now, I did a similar thing for 7.0 a few months ago (but using only the laptop) and it worked fine. BUT This time, I am getting a large discrepancy between the files within the iso image and the files that get copied. About 100 megs get missed. I am mounting the images using: mount /mnt/C/iso/image1.iso /mnt/iso1 -t iso9660 -o loop=/dev/loop1 mount /mnt/C/iso/image2.iso /mnt/iso2 -t iso9660 -o loop=/dev/loop2 After this I can view the contents of the iso images in /mnt/iso1 and /mnt/iso2 respectively. ls -R works, and du shows the correct disk usage for the tree. I then copy the files from /mnt/iso1 to /DOS/iso1 using the following: cp -R -v /mnt/iso1/* /DOS/iso1 This appears to work, but it skips about 100 megs worth of files (there is plenty of space on the drive for the files - after the copy there is still about 700Mb free). What am I missing? Regards, Ozz.
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