[expert] ATTENTION TODD: Install 9.0 from local disk?
You know, I was thinking: I've got enough free space on one of my partitions on the Linux Machine to hold all the RPMs from all three CDs. Is there any way that I can do a Install/Update/Whatever from one of those local drive/filesystems? I.E., I can install a bare-bones system using just CD 1 (which works). Then create something like /var/RPMS, copy the RPMS/RPMS2/RPMS3 files to that directory, and then tell the installer to go to that location for installing? If I could do that, I could finally get this beast up and running. Thoughts? I ideas? Is this possible? --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ATTENTION TODD: Install 9.0 from local disk?
Well I'm not Todd. But I might have an answer. In the first CD there are several images... copy the hd.img from that cd to a floppy. (in linux the cammand I believe is dd if=hd.img of=/dev/fd0 ) Make sure the floppy is unmounted when you do this. From Windows use rawrite. (under dosutils) then boot. tell it where the files are on your hdd and install as normal. You have to copy the Mandrake trees as they are (rpms rpms2 rpms3 for example.) A brief tutorial is at http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/ihdinst.html just in case. James On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 11:57, David Guntner wrote: You know, I was thinking: I've got enough free space on one of my partitions on the Linux Machine to hold all the RPMs from all three CDs. Is there any way that I can do a Install/Update/Whatever from one of those local drive/filesystems? I.E., I can install a bare-bones system using just CD 1 (which works). Then create something like /var/RPMS, copy the RPMS/RPMS2/RPMS3 files to that directory, and then tell the installer to go to that location for installing? If I could do that, I could finally get this beast up and running. Thoughts? I ideas? Is this possible? --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ATTENTION TODD: Install 9.0 from local disk?
James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
Well I'm not Todd. But I might have an answer. In the first CD there
are several images... copy the hd.img from that cd to a floppy. (in
linux the cammand I believe is dd if=hd.img of=/dev/fd0 ) Make sure the
floppy is unmounted when you do this. From Windows use rawrite. (under
dosutils) then boot. tell it where the files are on your hdd and
install as normal. You have to copy the Mandrake trees as they are
(rpms rpms2 rpms3 for example.) A brief tutorial is at
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/ihdinst.html just in case.
That seems to be oriented towards installing with a Windows partition on
your hard drive, which I don't have on my Linux box. I'm going to give a
try to copying the rpms to /var/Mandrake/{RPMS|RPMS2|RPMS3} on my minimal
installed system, and then fire up the hd.img-created floppy and tell it to
grab stuff from /var/Mandrake (and hope it can find the individual RPM
directories). I'll try varients if that doesn't work. If I'm barking up
the wrong tree here, please let me know! :-)
Thanks for the information.
--Dave
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Re: [expert] ATTENTION TODD: Install 9.0 from local disk?
David Guntner wrote on Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:50:09PM -0700 :
install as normal. You have to copy the Mandrake trees as they are
(rpms rpms2 rpms3 for example.) A brief tutorial is at
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/ihdinst.html just in case.
That seems to be oriented towards installing with a Windows partition on
your hard drive, which I don't have on my Linux box. I'm going to give a
try to copying the rpms to /var/Mandrake/{RPMS|RPMS2|RPMS3} on my minimal
installed system, and then fire up the hd.img-created floppy and tell it to
grab stuff from /var/Mandrake (and hope it can find the individual RPM
directories). I'll try varients if that doesn't work. If I'm barking up
the wrong tree here, please let me know! :-)
I just configured my system here yesterday to do network installs using
PXE of 8.2. The method I used to do it was:
mkdir /spare1/8.2
cp -avf /mnt/cdrom /spare1/8.2
(eject cd1 and put in cd2)
cp -avf /mnt/cdrom /spare1/8.2
(eject cd2 and put in cd3)
cp -avf /mnt/cdrom /spare1/8.2
( edit /etc/proftpd.conf or /etc/exports to add to make that path )
( accessible via the network )
cp /spare1/8.2/images/network.img /var/lib/tftpboot/PXEClient/images/8.2
( edit /var/lib/tftpboot/PXEClient/pxelinux.cfg/default to add )
( that target and path )
The last command and edit sequence are for PXE booting only, so in your
case, you would only need to configure NFS or Anonymous FTP to access
it.
Blue skies... Todd
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