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Re: mandrake installation question..



On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Tizmo wrote:

> hey list,
> i wanna install mandrake 7.2.
> now, this is how i wanna do it so please tell me if its possible:
> I wanna download the mandrak installation ISO file to my c:\ (on windows)
> and then boot the system with mandrake's hd.img boot disk image (if this is
> not the correct image tell me what IS)
> and install the system from the ISO file on c:\ without burnning it to a CD.
> 
> is it possible ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tizmo.
> 

  This is theoretically possible, by booting a specialized diskette image,
including the vfat, iso9660, and loop kernel modules compiled for the
installation kernel, and then hack the installation script to load those
modules and use the loopback mounted image as installation source.

  What I mean is, it is probably easier to get hold of a CD or CD-Burner,
download the CD as seperate files, or even copy the files from the image as
suggested earlier.

  Alon

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