Guest muktabh Posted September 29, 2005 Report Share Posted September 29, 2005 Hello, This is a question regarding mandriva installation when the iso's are on the hard disk. I am thinking of doing it this way.Here is the scenario >I save the ISO's in a folder on windows. ( do i extract the ISO's ? ) >I burn the boot.iso on a cdrom >i boot using this disc, give the path of ??? (extracted files from iso or ISO?) > Assuming the installation is successful, if i need to add a software from MCC, what do i do? coz i havent burned the cd's. So where will it take the packages from? PLz correct me at any step as i have never done this before Thanks in advance:) Regards Max Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted September 29, 2005 Report Share Posted September 29, 2005 Well, the cleanest way to install is to burn those .iso files to CDs, but if you don't have a CD-Writer it's supposed to be possible based on these instructions from: http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main...tall_from_ISO_i The disk install can also use ISO images from a local hard disk (put all ISO images in the same directory). You can get install/images/boot.iso from a mirror, burn it to CD and boot it. Once the installer is started, it will ask the hard disk, the partition and the directory were the ISO images are located. If this directory contains more than one bootable ISO image, the installer will ask which one it should use. ------- Caveats: I have no actual experience doing this, so can't provide any further tips. Regarding the MCC/urpmi sources, I would think it would set them up in your /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg based on the location of the .iso files. If you have those .iso file on an NTFS partition, I am skeptical that this will work as indicated above. They might need to be on an fat32 partition, I dunno. Hopefully someone who has actually done this will reply with some tips based on actual experience. If you can't get this to work and you don't have a CD-Writer but you do have a broadband connection, another option available to you is to do a network install from a mandriva mirror. Please advise if you want info on how to do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest muktabh Posted September 30, 2005 Report Share Posted September 30, 2005 Thanks a lot :) Well the link was indeed v informative. Actually i was searching for it alll day long but could find only the one with mandrake-linux address. So obviously it was not working. I will give a try to do it and see how to install additional packages after it. There should be sme way, will be awesome if it has alredy been taken care of by mandriva. Thanks again!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
congdonb Posted September 30, 2005 Report Share Posted September 30, 2005 (edited) PRD60 has a very good how-to on doing a first time install of Mandrive Linux at: http://www.linuxloader.com/ Cheers, Bill Edited September 30, 2005 by congdonb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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