[luau] Installing R-W CDrom

MonMotha monmotha at indy.rr.com
Sun Aug 4 16:01:01 PDT 2002


Um, cp?

Won't that blow away your device node and make a file named /dev/fd0 
containing the data in network.img?

If anything, I'd think youd need "cat network.img > /dev/fd0" or "dd 
if=network.img of=/dev/fd0"

Or am I wrong?

--MonMotha

Ray Strode wrote:
>>I'll be glad to try Mandrake 9.0 but I need the instructions as to how
>>to download the floppy from the source either the Luau Mirror or the
>>MAndrake site. Where do I find the floppy image to download?
> 
> 
> Download the appropriate image (network.img if you want to install 
> off network, cdrom.img if you want to install from cdrom) and then
> type from a shell:
> 
> cp network.img /dev/fd0
> 
> (or
> cp cdrom.img /dev/fd0
> )
> 
> The images can be found here I think:
> ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/images/
> 
> --Ray




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