It seems that you find it so easy that you which to get things complicated I would also advise you, either to manage burning your images or buying them Once burned it takes 10 min to install the minimum good luck Arkel Le Vendredi 2 Janvier 2004 19:10, Fritz Whittington a écrit : > On or about 2004-01-02 11:29, Barry Yu whipped out a trusty #2 pencil > > and scribbled: > > I am very musch interested that how you can load the Mandrake into a > > laptop without both floppy drive and cdrom (If I understand your > > laptop equipped devices correctly), would you care to share? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >--------------- > > > > david.hunt.linux@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >>> On Thursday 01 January 2004 04:15, David Hunt wrote: > >>>> I am currently running Windows XP / Mandrake 9.1 on a Dell Inspiron > >>>> 5100. > >> > >> I > >> > >>>> was planning on upgrading to Mandrake 9.2 (mainly for ACPI) and > >>>> decided > >> > >> to > >> > >>>> give Fedora a try. Well that's the preample. But, here is the catch. I > >>>> didn't pay for the external floppy drive, or a CD writer. So, I've > >>>> downloaded the ISO images, I have verified the MD5SUM, I can even > >>>> mount > >> > >> the > >> > >>>> images and view the files inside. But as far as I can tell, without > >> > >> writing > >> > >>>> the images to a CD, it appears that I can't do anything usefull with > >> > >> them. > >> > >>>> It seems like it should be possible to mount the images during the > >> > >> install > >> > >>>> process, instead of the CD-ROM. Has anyone ever tried that? > >>>> On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 16:59:14 Mihai Maties wrote: > >>> > >>> Boot up Mandrake 9.1 and then issue the commands: > >>> > >>> mount /first/fedora/iso/image.iso /mnt/cdrom -o loop > >>> mount /mnt/cdrom/images/bootdisk.img /mnt/floppy -o loop > >>> mkdir /boot/fedora > >>> cp /mnt/floppy/vmlinuz /boot/fedora > >>> cp /mnt/floppy/initrd.img /boot/fedora > >>> > >>> now add the following lines to your grub.conf file: > >>> > >>> title - Install Fedora Core 1 - > >>> root (hd0,1) > >>> kernel /boot/fedora/vmlinuz > >>> initrd /boot/fedora/initrd.img > >>> > >>> Pay attention to the "root (hd0,1)" part and change it to match the > >> > >> "root..." > >> > >>> part from the Mandrake installation. > >>> > >>> That's it, now reboot your computer and select "Install Fedora Core > >>> 1" from > >>> Grub's menu. After a few dialogs you will be asked to enter the path > >>> to the > >>> Fedora Core iso images so make sure you'll remember it. Also note > >>> that the > >>> iso images cannot be loaded from a NTFS partition ( if you have the > >>> images > >> > >> on > >> > >>> a Windows partition move them to one of Mandrake's partitions). > >>> > >>> > >>> Mihai > >> > >> Thank you very much for all of the help. This was my first post to a > >> Linux > >> mailing list, and the response was great. Of course, best of all, it > >> solved > >> my problem. I'm a little confused as to how to respond to these > >> emails. It > >> is not obvious that this will end up in the right place. But, here it > >> goes. > >> > >> I tried the advice of Mihai (included above), since it was the > >> closest to > >> how I was thinking it would be done. For my specific setup, there > >> were only > >> a few deviations. > >> > >> 1.I have no floppy drive, so there was no /mnt/floppy directory. > >> Without a > >> pre-existing directory the mount command didn't work. After simply > >> adding > >> the empty directory, the mount command worked fine. > >> > >> 2. I currently use LILO, but making the changes to /etc/lilo.conf was > >> easy > >> enough. I don't know if it is required, but with LILO, it is > >> necessary to > >> type in "lilo" at the command prompt, after changing the lilo.conf > >> file, for > >> the changes to actually take effect. > >> > >> 3. One more thing. The .ISO files have to be in the root "/" > >> directory of > >> the partition in which they are located. When they were in a lower level > >> directory, the installer wouldn't find them. > >> > >> So, end result was exactly what I was looking for. The install from > >> the ISO > >> files appeared to be working. Unfortunately the work isn't done. > >> During the > >> install everything crashed. There was a big list of failures, having > >> to do > >> with dev/hd issues (write permissions, formatting?). I didn't copy > >> them down > >> as I should have, and can't get now because Mandrake was destroyed in > >> the > >> process. I will be re-loading Mandrake, and following the process > >> again. I > >> will try to get better failure information, and verify that it didn't > >> have > >> anything to do with the install process. The ISO files were on a FAT32 > >> partition (not NTFS, but also not a Linux partition), which may have had > >> something to do with it. > > I think the OP mentions he doesn't have a floppy or a CD *writer*, not > that he didn't have a CD-ROM drive. But I admit it's a little unclear. > > If he does have a CD-ROM drive, I think he would be best advised to go > to one of the places on the Net which will mail you the 3 CDs for less > than $5. That's what I did, because even though I have a CD burner, I > have a 56k dialup connection :-( and downloading them would have taken > longer than the US mail... -------------------------------------------------------
