Well, I did manage to get the install to work from FTP: on my good PC, I activated IIS5's FTP server, root is ./linux9 I copied the files from CD1 to ./linux9/d1, CD2 to ./d2 and CD3 to d3. Figuring that the installer would prolly not look at d2 and d3, I also copied ./d2/Mandrake/RPMS2 to ./d1/Mandrake/RPMS2 AND the contents of RPMS2 to ./d1/Mandrake/RPMS.
Overkill, but that way I felt sure the installed would find the RPMS either from RPMS2 or RPMS. Did the same with disk 3. Installation kicked off, but I'm still having issues with the system. It can boot, but freezes whenever I try to access configuration tools (harddrake2, and such). Next plan is strip the box from all unnecessary hardware (sound card, CDROM, I had already pulled the modem) and start again. Starting to get pretty frustrated with this box and thinking about buillding a new one, just need a new mother board, got plenty of other spares. Anyone have a recent motherboard with AGP, pentium II slot for sale? Antonio -------Original Message------- From: Anders Lind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 01/03/03 04:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Failed install > > On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 10:15:16 +0000 Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes. One way of doing it is to mount the CD images as loopback file systems, > and then export them as NFS shares. On the computer you want to boot you > then boot from floppy using the 'network' boot image you will find on a > Mandrake mirror site. > A network install allows you to boot from an FTP site, or an NFS share. Just > follow the prompts. > This is 'mentioned' in the Mandrake installer instructions, but not really > covered in depth. That is one way of doing it, and you can also set the one where it is installed as a FTP-server and install it from there. /Anders >
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