[TriLUG] Mandrake install config question

[Jon Carnes]

Don't know.  You may have more luck with this question on the Mandrake
Forum.

Still here's an idea - move off to one of the command screens (Alt-F??) then
I believe you have access to a bash shell running as root, from there you
can either remap /dev/fd0 to one of your other devices that is an ordinary
partition (/dev/hda2) - or even try just mounting one of your partitions as
/mnt/floppy (after umounting /dev/fd0 first...)

Knowing the Mandrake folks, they probably *do* store the config info
somewhere in the install, so you just might be able to move that to floppy
at some later time.

Good Luck - Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Merrill" <cmerrill at nc.rr.com>
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 8:10 AM
Subject: [TriLUG] Mandrake install config question


> I just finished installing Mandrake 8 on a Thinkpad
> (my first time with M8).  At the end there was an
> option to save the installation setup - I assume this
> saves the which packages were selected, users created,
> etc.  I could not do this because I did not have a
> floppy drive available (can't hot-swap the floppy/cd
> without special drivers).  Is there any way to create
> this config file after-the-fact?  Or any way to save
> the file to the regular file system, rather than
> floppy?
>
> TIA,
> Chris
>
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