On Monday 12 July 2004 02:57 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: > On July 12, 2004 11:48, Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Monday 12 July 2004 12:40 pm, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: > > > ok, this is getting a bit off topic, but... > > > > > > how do i "make it bootable with the cdrom boot image"? i found the > > > "raw tree for Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official" and i'm assuming i can > > > download it, keeping the dir structure intact, then burn it to dvd with > > > the "cdrom boot image"...? > > > > I believe that to make a CD or DVD bottable, you hae to specify a boot > > image, which I believe should be that exact size of a floppy disk image, > > so you can use one of the floppy images in the images directory to make > > the DVD bootable. Alternatively, you could create the DVD archive, and > > then use a boot floppy to get started. > > > > Another thought, if you have the bandwidth to copy the whole dang tree > > down, you might want to consider an ftp install. > > Or if the OP has that much bandwidth, and enough space, what's wrong with > doing an hard drive install using the boot.iso in the images directory? > That image is about 8 MB. A CD-RW current for the version of Mandrake > wanted is all that's needed. That and knowing where the tree is on the > drive. > > It's the quickest and easiest method since you don't have to wait for > network slowdowns or switch disks or put up with speed bumps from optical > drives. > > That's the method I use for most customer's systems I assemble. I got sick > of paying for blank CD-Rs. > Agreed, in fact I believe I even suggested this a few posts back. Not to continue the OT, but to further highlight the strength of Linux in general and mandrake in particular, if you download the whole tree, one could also make their own DVD iso with the MakeCD script found in the misc directory of the dist tree. -- /g
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