Mandrake help needed

[CHristopher Baird]

i just downloaded all 3 isos to mandrake and unisoed them to one directory
on my Hardrive i have made a install boot floppy disk just like the install
Guide says when i restart my Machine with disk in and start to install
how do i Point it to the directory on my hardrive

[Doug Laidlaw]

CHristopher Baird wrote:

You don't "uniso" an iso file. They are images you write to a CD. Get Nero
or a similar CD-writer and use it to make a CD with each iso image. (Make
sure that you use the right menu option - on occasion I have just copied
the file to a CD. That is NOT correct.) You will then have 3 CDs. Put CD
1 in your CD-ROM drive and use the boot floppy you made. Then follow the
on-screen prompts. If you can configure your computer's BIOS to boot from
the CD, you won't need the floppy.

Doug.
--
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and
hands.
- Robert M. Persig

[CHristopher Baird]

i dont want to make 3 CDs it says i can do it from my hardive like i did i
just dont know how
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[Clive Dove]

CHristopher Baird wrote:

Don't use downloaded iso images.

On the Mandrake 9.2 download page there are two lists of mirrors, the
first list contains mirrors of the iso sets and the second one contains
lists of mirrors of the whole tree.

Download the whole tree from the second list using a mirroring tool or
using this:
wget -rm

Then from the images directory of that tree, make an install boot floppy
using hd.img instead of cdrom.img.

[CHristopher Baird]

i have made myself a bootable floppy what do i type to point it to the
directory where i ihave it?

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[Doug Laidlaw]

CHristopher Baird wrote:

What did you download? If you downloaded the 3 "cdrom.img" files I am
afraid that you will have to start again, and get the ones Clive mentioned.
They are COMPLETELY different.

Where did you put them? On your Windows drive? You will need to leave them
there forever, because everything on them isn't installed to begin with,
and you will have to go back to them from time to time. If you use
CD-ROMs, you won't tie up this disk space. And properly cared for, CD-ROMs
last longer than a HD.

What image did you put on the boot floopy? Was it cdrom.img or hd.img? It
needs to be hd.img.

If it was hd.img, what message do you get when you boot from it? Mandrake
tries to make it easy to install from within Windows, but I have never done
it that way. If you are working from within Windows, i would assume that
you will be prompted for a path in normal Windows format, e.g. C:\ or
C:\Mandrake, or wherever you put them, but I dont'know. If it says
/dev/hd? type /dev/hda/ . Note that the slashes under Linux face the other
way.

Without more information, I am afraid that we can't really give you specific
directions. It seems to me that you are not really experienced enough to
install from your HD.

There is a newsgroup specifically devoted to Mandrake at
alt.os.linux.mandrake.

You can save yourself all this hassle by ordering a set of CD-ROMS from
various sources for about $30. Because there are no licence fees for
Linux, the CDs just cost you the suppliers' work in burning them. Search
for them on the Web.

Doug.

--
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
-- Quentin Crisp.

[Doug Laidlaw]

Doug Laidlaw wrote:

As I mentioned, we need more information to be able to answer your question.
Have a look at http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html . If you
follow the guidelines there, you are more likely to get a useful answer
first time. I couldn't find the URL in a hurry last night.

HTH,

Doug.
--
If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.
--John Clare, poet.