[expert] ATTENTION TODD: Install 9.0 from local disk?

2002-10-04 Thread David Guntner
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

Re: [expert] ATTENTION TODD: Install 9.0 from local disk?

2002-10-04 Thread James Sparenberg
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)

Re: [expert] ATTENTION TODD: Install 9.0 from local disk?

2002-10-04 Thread David Guntner
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

Re: [expert] ATTENTION TODD: Install 9.0 from local disk?

2002-10-04 Thread Todd Lyons
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