Installfest / two hours?

[Michael]

They removed the d/l from the mirrors! Would you suggest (i figured this out 
all an my lonesome):

	mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom;dd if=/mnt/cdrom
	of=<desired file>;tar czf mepis.2003.10.2;umout /mnt/cdrom

or should I not 'z' because it is zipped in it's current state?

Currently, sometimes when I am installing the OS it hangs and I need to turn 
everything off and restart. I am thiking this is because of the scrapes on 
the CD but I am unsure of that.  I will need to upload the copy because k3b 
doesn't seem to work. I tried installing the current version but I am afraid 
that after upgrading everything else the system will be broken! I looked for 
a command line program but 'aproppos burn' returned no positive results. 
OH-HOOOOOO! 'aproppos cd' gave me a positive or two: cdrecord and readcd.
inspecting the man poage seems to reveal that cdrecord doesn't do what I need 
it to while 'readcd' shows that perhaps the 'clone' option would work. YIPEE! 
That program will work! Okay, I need to employ 'mkisofs' first. Then I enter
 
     readcd dev=2,0 f=<iso file name>

but this is for writing to a dvd-ram. What would i enter for writing to a 
plain 'ol cd burner?


On Tuesday 25 April 2006 19:39, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 06:19:54PM -0700, Michael wrote:
> > Over two hours per installation? Mepis 2003.10.02 only takes me like 30
> > minutes including config time.  Simply Mepis doesn't run out-of-the-box
> > but it's predecessor does.
>
> Tell someone 30 minutes and then you'd run into a snag getting X going,
> or something. If someone needs help doing an install, they might like a
> little walkthrough as well. Then there's loading up whatever packages
> don't come with the base install. I haven't been to an installfest yet,
> but I can imagine.
>
> > My machine is circa 1997. (home grown baby!) Perhaps a copy of 2003
> > should be on hand for ancient machines! I'm trying to get one of my
> > friends (I know nothing about her machine except that it is slow) to come
> > down.... she hasn't gotten back with me yet.
>
> There are several distros that are still good for older hardware. I bet
> Dennis wouldn't mind having a 2003 Mepis handy, if you were to offer one
> to him.