i attempted a Harddrive installation. I didnt know what i was doing, and ended up unarchiving the iso's
I have my harddrive partitioined, One WinXP, and one ext2, one swap
i booted using the hd.img and everything was going along smoothly
then the installation began not finding packages
I later found the poackages it didnt find were the ones not on the first
CD
I have 3 directories on my windows system
C:\MDK - 1st cd
c:\MDK2 - 2nd cd
C:\MDK3 - 3rd cd
the installation ended up completing and i had a running box, just a very limited one
i attempted to install a driver for my intel 537ep modem, and it needed autoconfig.h and advised me to install the linux source
this i attempted to do, but the RPMDrak couldnt find it
then everything stopped working, even the RPMdrak
so i ended up attempting to reinstall
but instead this time, i thought the installation may be more capable of finding the packages if they were in the same dir as the 1st cd
so i put the RPMS2 and RPMS3 (the RPM dir from cd 2 & 3 respectively) in the C:\MDK\Mandrake
folder.
the installation was again going smoothly, then crashed.
black screen type crash. It was on the Apache installation, exited abnormally.
it sajd the system can be safely rebooted now, so i did
it booted up to 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99...
did a little research, found out LILO was hosed.
Now for the question: What'd I do wrong? and is it possible to install using this method (without the actual *.ISO, but i have all the files)
Thanks a lot
--John
