sallam Posted June 17, 2005 Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 Greetings! newbie here! I'm currently downloading the 3 CD's of Mandriva LE2005 installation. The problem is that my cd writer is broken, so I was wondering: is there any way to install the 3 CDs downloads, without having to burn them in actual CDs? like using a virtual CD software or something? (I have Alcohol 120%) Or must I go buy a new cd writer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 17, 2005 Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 Difficult, because you usually have to reboot the system, and then it boots from the CD's to install the OS. I think you'll need to write these to CD to install the OS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonEberger Posted June 17, 2005 Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 the broken cd writer could def. make it more difficult. perhaps you can do some kind of networking with someone whose burner works. i know for alot of other distributions, there are smaller boot images that can be loaded onto a usb-drive. if you can boot from it (as allowed by your motherboard) then perhaps that is a solution even if it means not using mandriva. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted June 17, 2005 Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 (edited) You could always do a network install. All you'd need is two floppies created from the network.img and network_drivers.img files. See the ../official/2005/i586/install/images/README file for details on creating these and on doing a network install. The image files are in there are well. The one with the network.img is the one you'll boot from, and you'll later be prompted for the network_images floppy. Befores starting, be sure to write down the full ftp or http address of the mirror you want to use. You'll probably need to enter it during the process. You'll be prompted separately for the ftp or http server and the Mandrake directory. Enter them like this example: ftp server: mirrors.usc.edu <leave off the ftp:// part) Mandrake directory: /pub/linux/distributionsmandrakelinux/official/2005/i586/ I've done a couple network installs and they work nicely. Once you're up and running, you could always mount those downloaded .iso images as a loopback device and access them just like any other file system. mount -o loop -t iso9660 <some_iso_file>.iso /mnt/??? Edited June 17, 2005 by jboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted June 17, 2005 Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 (edited) I just found a link for a detailed procedure to install from a hard drive using downloaded .iso files. No CDs are required. https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=1748 Edited June 17, 2005 by jboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sallam Posted June 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 Thanks for the tips. I found an 'install' file inside CD1, that has instructions for installing from hard disk, without having to burn any CDs. It worked great, though figuring out partition numbers was tricky. The problem now is internet connection. I have a d-link 530 LAN adapter card, but ML configures it as a via something, and when I start firefox, it takes ages to reach even google! what should I do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 18, 2005 Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 It's probably something to do with IPV6. In Firefox, in the address bar type about:config. Then filter for IPV6, and change from False to True. Then try and see if it's any better. Also, you might want to add this line to your /etc/modprobe.conf alias net-pf-10 off this will ensure that ipv6 is disabled each time you boot your computer. Hope that helps to sort out the speed problem! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sallam Posted June 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 thanks so much, I'll do that now and see.. Also, you might want to add this line to your /etc/modprobe.conf alias net-pf-10 off forgive me, as a complete newbie to linux, but how can I add that line? where do i go to find that conf file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 19, 2005 Report Share Posted June 19, 2005 OK, you can open a command prompt, which is called Konsole. This can be found on the toolbar at the bottom of the screen, or you can find it in System/Terminals. At the prompt type the following: cd /etc su (now supply root password) vi modprobe.conf press i at the end of the file enter the text alias-net-pf-10 off press ESC press :w (colon and w) this will save the file press :q (colon and q) this will quit. you can then exit the command prompt, and IPV6 will be disabled each time you boot your computer. If however, you find that Firefox is now working perfectly fine, then don't worry about disabling IPV6 unless you notice any other problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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