Re: Mandriva 2011 download

On 08/29/2011 07:50 PM, Phil wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:07:14 pm Jim Beard wrote:
>> On 08/29/2011 08:19 AM, Phil wrote:
>>> This may well be a dumb question but here goes.
>>>
>>> My Internet allowance won't allow me to download large files  so I asked
>>> a friend to downloaded what should have been an iso file. Instead the
>>> download includes three directories Addons, isolinux and LiveOS but not
>>> Mandriva.2011.i586.1.iso.
>>>
>>> Have I misunderstood something or could the download be incomplete?
>>
>> Your friend downloaded the wrong thing.  On carroll.cac.psu.edu,
>> the iso Mandriva.2011.i586.1.iso lives in
>> /pub/.mirrors/1/rsync.mandriva.com/ftp/MandrivaLinux/official
>> /iso/2011
>>
>> also known as
>> /pub/linux/distributions/mandrivalinux/official/iso/2011
>>
>> If you go to .../MandrivaLinux/official/2011 you get the set of
>> directories, which is not what you want.
>>
>
> Thanks Jim and John for your quick replies.
>
> I've contacted my friend and this is his response: "I put the iso file through
> Magic ISO to unzip it and then extracted the files to the USB Stick"
>
> Unfortunately, he has gone away for the week so I don't have access to the
> original download. Can I reverse what he has done to recover the original iso
> file?

It probably can be done, but I do not know how.  However, you 
should have access to the files all.rdz and vmlinuz in the iso, 
and they can be used to install Mandriva.  Note that this will 
download a lot of packages from a mirror somewhere, so if total 
byte size of the entire installation is the problem (rather than 
just a limit on individual file/package sizes) this may not do 
what you need.

URL all on one line, as usual:

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Installing_Mandriva_Linux#Booting_the_installer_directly_from_a_hard_disk_-_Linux_method

Read the entire section, but the key stuff once you locate the 
two named files and put them in /boot is as follows.

EXCERPT:

Booting the installer directly from a hard disk - Linux method
.
.
.
For lilo, add an entry like this to /etc/lilo.conf:
image=/boot/vmlinuz-all
      label=all-install
      root=/dev/ram3
      initrd=/boot/all.rdz
      append="ramdisk_size=32000"
      vga=791
      read-only

Then run the command lilo as root.

For grub, add an entry like this to /boot/grub/menu.lst:
title all-install
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-all root=/dev/ram3 ramdisk_size=32000 
vga=791
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/all.rdz

END EXCERPT

If you put the vmlinuz file in /boot, it will overwrite the 
symlink there to the current default kernel.  With grub, this can 
be addressed by adding a stanza to /etc/boot/grub/menu.lst to 
call the current default kernel directly.  This can be useful if 
the install goes snafu.

Also with grub, if you are not used to tinkering with menu.lst, 
bear in mind that in grub-speak (hd0,0) is hda1 or sda1.  You 
must change the first 0 to identify the drive (0=first, 1=second) 
and change the second 0 to identify the partition on that drive 
to boot from (0=first partition, 1-second partition, etc).

Cheers!

jim b.

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