Re: Making CD from ftp'ed files


Subject: Re: Making CD from ftp'ed files
From: Ian Collier (iancollier@btinternet.com)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2001 - 16:27:58 MDT


Hi Paolo,

I'd recommend that you download the iso images - look, around for the
iso directory.

--Ian

>Hello everyone.
>
>Sorry if this is a very basic question...I had installed YDLinux 1.2
>a while ago, after purchasing it on CD.
>Last week, I got ADSL installed in my home and decided to check
>whether there was a new version of this distribution. I found it and
>downloaded the entire content of the following directory:
>
>ftp.yellowdoglinux.com//pub/yellowdog/yellowdog-2.0/ppc/
>
>So far so good, however, I have difficulties in installing this. I
>have burned a CD with exactly the same structure as the ftp'ed
>files. However, the installer, thinks that the CD does not contain a
>RedHat distribution.
>In fact, I have noticed that nowhere there is a "ramdisk.image.gz"
>which I could reference from the BootX CP.
>
>How do I go about making an installer CD. now that I have all the files?
>
>Any help is appreciated :-)
>
>Paolo
>--
>Paolo G. Cordone
>Book Review Editor
>First Monday -- the peer-reviewed journal on the Internet
>http://www.firstmonday.org



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