Installing Mandrake from ISO Images

[Cannonfodder]

Is it possible to install Mandrake 10.1 from mounted ISO images when you don't have a floppy drive? Any ideas? The few descriptions I have seen for installing from iso images seem to require making a boot floppy..

 

Note that I have a 10.0 community version of mandrake on a spare partition. After the install of 10.1, this partition will be cleared so it doesn't need to be saved..

[taliesinangelus]

I think this might help:

 

http://forum.mandrakeclub.com/viewtopic.ph...light=mount+iso

[nplatis]

You can install Mandrake completely from the ISO images, without CD or floppy. The following page describes all possible installation methods for Cooker, but it applies to "normal" Mandrake distributions as well:

http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CookerHowTo

[papaschtroumpf]

burn the CDs and boot from CD?

[adamw]

simplest way would be to burn boot.iso (7MB) to a CD and boot off that. I haven't read the links above but I imagine at least one of 'em suggests the same thing.

[Gowator]

if you have another PC I usdually just mount them on loopback and then export that directory as NFS or even http... then just do http or nfs install.

[Cannonfodder]

Ok, the challange for me was..

 

1. no floppy drive

2. no spare cd's to burn

3. a good internet connection. I got the ISO images

4. I know how to mount ISO's :)

5. I have a spare partition with Mandrake on it..

 

Either, I go buy some more CD's *yawn*

or..

I use Mandrake to mount the ISO images and find a way to install them into new partitions (run the installer)

or..

Find someway to upgrade my existing partition from 10.0 community to the latest 10.1 (save beta for later)

 

Ideas? Also, I'm reading the Mandrake Club discussion. The link pointed just to Mandrake Club so I'm trying to figure it out..

[taliesinangelus]

Weird - the link worked for me when I clicked it...

 

Here it is in plain text:

 

http://forum.mandrakeclub.com/viewtopic.php?t=32409