On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 11:36:09PM +0200, Tizmo wrote:
> > hey list,
> > i wanna install mandrake 7.2.
> > now, this is how i wanna do it so please tell me if its possible:
> > I wanna download the mandrak installation ISO file to my c:\ (on windows)
> > and then boot the system with mandrake's hd.img boot disk image (if this is
> > not the correct image tell me what IS)
> > and install the system from the ISO file on c:\ without burnning it to a CD.
>
> You should be able to mount the ISO image via a loopback device and then
> tell Mandrake to install from a "directory". Unfortunately, I'm not sure
> whether Mandrake's boot floppy has a loopback device support etc.
>
> Basically, it should be something like:
>
> mount /dos/mandrake.iso /our-mounted-iso/ -t iso9660 -o loop
This won't work: the extra shell console is only opened by the
second-stage installer (which is waiting in the iso image).
So unless the floppy has support for mounting an iso image from an msdos
partition, it won't work.
Anyway, if all else fails, and you have some spare 500-600MB in some dos
partiotion, you can try extracting the files from the iso image (by what
program exactly?) and running a standard hard-disk installation. See the
install guide.
BTW: the mandrake site is a bit poor on documentation: a quick scan of it
does not reveal the install guide. A hardware compatibility list is only
availble for the latest version, etc.
--
Tzafrir Cohen
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