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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers really dumb question... Post 4957 by mib on Sunday 5th of August 2001 10:09:11 AM
Old 08-05-2001
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so once i get there were can i find the install file(s) that i need? i only see a series of folder and files. the ones that say intall are instructions but i don't see the files themselves.
As Andy said Downloading the ISO is the easiest way. You can install a working system with only the first CD (Mandrake80-inst.iso ). The second one brings more applications (Mandrake80-ext.iso ).

The other way is to d/l files to your harddisk. Select an apropriate mirror and download the dosutils, images, and Mandrake trees to a directory, 'C:\Linux'. Then use the 'rawrite' utility from the 'dosutils' directory to prepare your boot disk. And Boot your computer using that floppy. It will start the the installation as normal and choose to 'install from a Local HDD' when its prompted to select a media.

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also the install instructions that i see are to run linux from windows without partitioning.
Doc about lin4win? which we can install without a seperate partition.

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everything i've read says that you are supposed to partition your drive when running 2 operating systems, and i've also read that Mandrake will do that automatically???
Yes mandrake will do that automatically if you choose that way. BTW: mandrake has nice GUI which will simplfy your partition editing.


 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

rinse

RINSE(8)						 Perl Programmers Reference Guide						  RINSE(8)

NAME

       rinse - RPM Installation Entity.

SYNOPSIS

	 rinse [options]

	 Help Options:
	  --help     Show help information.
	  --manual   Read the manual for this script.
	  --version  Show the version information and exit.

	 Mandatory Options:

	  --arch	 Specify the architecture to install.
	  --directory	 The directory to install the distribution within.
	  --distribution The distribution to install.

	 Customization Options:

	  --add-pkg-list	Additional packages to download and install

	  --after-post-install	Additionally run the specified script after
				the post install script.
	  --before-post-install Additionally run the specified script before
				the post install script.
	  --post-install	Run the given post-install script instead of the
				default files in /usr/lib/rinse/$distro

	 Misc Options:

	  --cache		Should we use a local cache?  (Default is 1)
	  --cache-dir		Specify the directory we should use for the cache.
	  --clean-cache 	Clean our cache of .rpm files.
	  --config		Specify a different configuration file.
				(Default is /etc/rinse/rinse.conf)
	  --pkgs-dir		Specify a different directory containing
				<distribution>.packages files.
	  --mirror		Specify the URL of the mirror.
				(Default is to read it from /etc/rinse/rinse.conf)
	  --list-distributions	Show installable distributions.
	  --print-uris		Only show the RPMs which should be downloaded.
				default files in /usr/lib/rinse/$distro
	  --verbose		Enable verbose output.

OPTIONS

       --arch Specify the architecture to install.  Valid choices are 'amd64' and 'i386' only.
       --add-pkg-list Add a list of additional packages.
       --cache Specify whether to cache packages (1) or not (0).
       --cache-dir Specify the directory we should use for the cache.
       --clean-cache Remove all cached .rpm files.
       --directory Specify the directory into which the distribution should be installed.
       --distribution Specify the distribution to be installed.
       --help Show help information.
       --mirror Specify the URL of the mirror. Normally this is read from /etc/rinse/rinse.conf.
       --list-distributions Show the distributions which are installable.
       --manual Read the manual for this script.
       --print-uris Only show the files we would download, don't actually do so.
       --verbose Enable verbose output.
       --version Show the version number and exit.

DESCRIPTION

	 rinse is a simple script which is designed to be able to install
	a minimal working installation of an RPM-based distribution into
	a directory.

	 The tool is analogous to the standard Debian GNU/Linux debootstrap
	utility.

USAGE

	 To use this script you will need to be root.  This is required
	to mount /proc, run chroot, and more.

	 Basic usage is as simple as:

	  rinse --distribution fedora-core-6 --directory /tmp/test

	 This will download the required RPM files and unpack them into
	a minimal installation of Fedora Core 6.

	 To see which RPM files would be downloaded, without actually
	performing an installation or downloading anything, then you
	may run the following:

	  rinse --distribution fedora-core-6 --print-uris

TODO

	 Short of supporting more distributions or architectures there aren't
	really any outstanding issues.

AUTHOR

	Steve
	--
	http://www.steve.org.uk/

LICENSE

       Copyright (c) 2007-2010 by Steve Kemp.  All rights reserved.

       Copyright (c) 2011-2013 by Thomas Lange.

       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.  The LICENSE file contains the
       full text of the license.

2.0.1								    2013-01-28								  RINSE(8)
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