Guest rsliberty Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 Gday all, I am using Mandrake 10.1, I am wondering if it is possible to copy the installation CD's to the hard disk after the installation has been completed. Has anyone achieved this? Any tips would be most appreciated. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted March 23, 2005 Report Share Posted March 23, 2005 welcome. By now there are many updates to the files on your CD's. What you may want to do is use Easyurpmi and set sources main and contrib so you can get the files from the internet or download them all from the ftp mirrors. At this point you would find that there are hundreds of mbs of updates. You can also open the cd's with konqueror and drag the rpms to wherever you want. You will then have to add a local repository via urpmi pointing to where you copied the files. If you have good bandwidth I recommend that you use the ftp mirrors main and contrib. You can then remove your CD sources if I am correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted March 24, 2005 Report Share Posted March 24, 2005 You can also take the ISO images you downloaded from Mandrake and mount them virtually as a loopback file system. This means that as far as the system is concerned, the CD is in the drive when it really is just an ISO file. Easy to do with a single command.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioshin Posted March 30, 2005 Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 Gday all, I am using Mandrake 10.1, I am wondering if it is possible to copy the installation CD's to the hard disk after the installation has been completed. Has anyone achieved this? Any tips would be most appreciated. Cheers! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> yes, am doin what you'd like to do, coz I dont have a cdrom in my pc, and it takes a bandwidth to install from ftp or http source, so what i did was, I copied the rpms of those disk1-3, I created a folder name mdkRPMS then created 3 folders named disk1, disk2, disk3, well you can decide what ever name you like, then put in there the corresponding rpm including their hdlist file and add it using drakrpm-edit-media.. anyway, heres my urmpi.cfg when done adding those # generated Mon Mar 28 11:19:48 2005 { } cd3 file://mnt/other02/mandrake10-1rpms/disk3/main3 { hdlist: hdlist.cd3.cz synthesis update with_hdlist: media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz } cd2 file://mnt/other02/mandrake10-1rpms/disk2 { hdlist: hdlist.cd2.cz synthesis update with_hdlist: media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz } cd1 file://mnt/other02/mandrake10-1rpms/disk1/main { hdlist: hdlist.cd1.cz synthesis update with_hdlist: media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz } I included the folder media_info inside the folder that contains the rpms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted March 30, 2005 Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 Read my website, config page. I've been doing this for quite some time -and the new and upcoming Mdk 10.2 / Limited Edition 2005 will be even easier: you can now install from hd or copy all cd contents to hd during installation if you choose to do so, there's a prompt during the first steps of the installation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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