[TriLUG] installing Mandrake 9.1 from the network

[John Beimler]

gregbrown at mindspring.com wrote:

>I have attempted to set up my own Mandrake mirror and, once again, it doesn't seem to work right.  Here's what I did:
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>1. download the ISOs
>2. create the directory /opt/mirror/mandrake/9.1/Mandrake
>3. mount the first installation CD
>4. create base image RPMS RPMS2 RPMS3 under the Mandrake dir.
>5. copy the RPMS out of RPMS form disk 1 to ./RPMS
>6. copy the images out of images
>7. copy the base stuff out of base
>8. move on to the next CD, copy the info in RPMS2 to ./RPMS2
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>Any help poinint out where I've gone wrong would be very helpful!  For now I guess I'll reinstall RH 8 via the network (which DOES work from my own mirror).
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one thing that may be easier would be to mount the ISO's on the loopback 
device, and make links to the RPMS from a single directory.  It won't 
work (well) for installs on a single machine, as you were doing, but it 
can make things much easier if you are setting up a network install server.

Peace.

john