[svlug] Mandrake install

[matt@vazor.com]

Hi all,

The solution presented itself while I was halfway through composing this email
so I'll present the apparent solution.  Maybe someone else will have the same
problem.

So I downloaded the three isos (BitTorrent rocks BTW) to a vfat partition on my
hard drive (dual boot with Windows ME which I use rather infrequently).  I get
as far as installing some of the RPMs, but the Mandrake installer doesn't seem
to have options to mount the other two ISOs.  So, from the installer I switch
to the console and do:

mknod /dev/loop5
chmod 644 /dev/loop5
losetup /dev/loop5 /tmp/hdimage/pathto/Mandrake91-cd2-ext.i586.iso
mkdir /tmp/cd2
mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/loop5 cd2

mknod /dev/loop6
chmod 644 /dev/loop6
losetup /dev/loop6 /tmp/hdimage/pathto/Mandrake91-cd3-ext.i586.iso
mkdir /tmp/cd3
mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/loop6 cd2

umount /tmp/image

mkdir cd1
mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/loop3 cd1

cd /tmp/image
mkdir Mandrake
cd Mandrake
ln -s ../../cd1/Mandrake/RPMS
ln -s ../../cd2/Mandrake/RPMS2
ln -s ../../cd3/Mandrake/RPMS3

But what a pain in the ass!  The hard drive install from ISOs is pretty much
useless as far as I can tell if you can't figure all of the above out...  I
found some other options on the net for editing ISO1 with some windows program
to add these two RPM directories, but that certainly seems like the long way
around.

l8r

m

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Matt Billenstein
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