[TriLUG] installing Mandrake 9.1 from the network

[Tanner Lovelace]

You can't actually do a network install of mandrake this way.  The 
hdlist.cz
files specify which file is on which CD and if you copy them to the hard
drive they won't be were they're expected.  A better way of doing a
hard drive install would be to use the CDs to seed a mirror then use
rsync to fill in the missing files (i.e. the correct hdlist.cz files).
Take a look at the mirror on distro.ibiblio.org to see how to setup
the hard drive.  Basically, iirc, all the rpms in RPMS{1,2,3...}
should go into one RPMS/ directory, except for those files that are
considered part of contrib (assuming they included contrib this time,
they didn't with 9.0).  Once you do that, rsync will just copy the
missing files down and you'll have what you need.

Cheers,
Tanner

On Saturday, April 5, 2003, at 08:10 PM, 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:
>
> 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
>
> ...and so on
>
> Once all that was one I created a boot disk, popped it in my laptop, 
> then started the network install.  Everything went well up until about 
> halfway through the installation process when it starts to complain 
> out "error installing packages".  The one it's stuck on now is 
> "libhermes1-1.3.2.8mdk.i586".  I hit "ok" but it just keeps getting 
> stuck on one thing or another.
>
> This is basically the same error that I ran into last time I tried to 
> do a network install of Mandrake (which I must do on this laptop 
> because my CD drive refuses to boot media regardless of BIOS > settings).
>
> 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).
>
> Greg
>
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