David Mathog wrote:

> In the name of progress there are no floppy install images in 7.1.
> Too bad, as that was a really easy way to install Mandriva 2007.0
> and earlier (assuming a fast mirror was available.)
>
> The 2007.1 release notes say:
>
> Floppy disk install images dropped
>
> The old floppy disk install images - (cdrom.img, network.img,
> pcmcia.img) - have been discontinued. You must use the CD image
> boot.iso, the USB drive image all.img, or directly use
> isolinux/alt0 (using tftp for example).
>
> That's going to be a little painful. Some of my machines
> have a floppy but no CD. In theory they support USB boot, but
> I've never tried it and this motherboard's support of USB functions
> has historically been less than stellar. They do PXE boot correctly,
> only the campus mirror is not on my private net, and I have no way to
> service PXE requests on the campus net. I Suppose one could pxe boot
> to the installer and then when it comes up swap the network cable to
> the campus net. And pray that the installer doesn't bail when it sees
> the network drop.
>
> Otherwise, it looks like I may be trying the newfangled "Booting the
> installer direct from a hard disk - Linux method". Good thing that
> all.rdz and vmlinux in i586/isolinux/alt0 are small, as the /boot
> partition on these systems aren't very big. Even better that I don't
> need to do an install on a clean disk!
>
> Regards,
>
> David Mathog

Fair enough, but my wife's computer hasn't got a floppy drive, and I expect
that my new one (if they ever stop telling me that they need to upgrade its
specs) won't have one either.

Doug.
--
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
- Peter E. Drucker.

David Mathog wrote:
> In the name of progress there are no floppy install images in 7.1.
> Too bad, as that was a really easy way to install Mandriva 2007.0
> and earlier (assuming a fast mirror was available.)
>
> The 2007.1 release notes say:
>
> Floppy disk install images dropped
>
> The old floppy disk install images - (cdrom.img, network.img,
> pcmcia.img) - have been discontinued. You must use the CD image
> boot.iso, the USB drive image all.img, or directly use
> isolinux/alt0 (using tftp for example).
>
> That's going to be a little painful. Some of my machines
> have a floppy but no CD. In theory they support USB boot, but
> I've never tried it and this motherboard's support of USB functions
> has historically been less than stellar. They do PXE boot correctly,
> only the campus mirror is not on my private net, and I have no way to
> service PXE requests on the campus net. I Suppose one could pxe boot
> to the installer and then when it comes up swap the network cable to
> the campus net. And pray that the installer doesn't bail when it sees
> the network drop.
>
> Otherwise, it looks like I may be trying the newfangled "Booting the
> installer direct from a hard disk - Linux method". Good thing that
> all.rdz and vmlinux in i586/isolinux/alt0 are small, as the /boot
> partition on these systems aren't very big. Even better that I don't
> need to do an install on a clean disk!
>

Why not just byte the bullet, and install a CD or DVD burner before
starting? If they support USB boot, I am sure they support an atapi boot.

They are down under $100 these days, even for a DVD. The CD duals are
50-60 dollars. It is hardly worth the effort of doing without.

Donald

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:08:59 -0700, David Mathog wrote:
> In the name of progress there are no floppy install images in 7.1.

Yes, and java plugin not installed kinda bites. You are screwed because
sun.com requires java for you to pick/download the java package.

You may want to update your admin diary to get the lastest jre and
save it for when doing a clean install.

Currently under 2007.1 the java sun rpm (1.6.0_00) will not install from the
"public" mandriva non-free repository.

Current jre is jre1.6.0_01 (jre-6u1-linux-i586) from java.com