Copyright © 2001, 2002 Florent Villard, MandrakeSoft
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Jul. 08, 2002
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This part explain how the install works, and why mkcd is needed to create the installation discs.
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I will focused on disc based installation, there are some few differences for network and other type of installation medias. The required files to make a installation disc are located in /Mandrake/mdkinst and /Mandrake/base/
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Building a distribution by hand is kind of easy in theory, just have to copy the required installation files in a repository, populate /Mandrake/RPMS with packages, write some config files about how many packages directories will be used, generate the dependencies files with gendistrib, build the ISO images and that's it.
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Cooker LIST 1 input/cooker/main /cooker/i586/Mandrake/base/RPMS /cooker/SRPMS DISC 1 681000000 COOKER0101 DISC 1 Installation CD (x86) dir rpms Mandrake/RPMS generic --synthesis rpms 1 advertising en/image1.png en/image2.png en/image3.png advertising -l de de/image1.png de/image2.png de/image3.png advertising -l fr fr/image1.png fr/image2.png fr/image3.png installation -o 50,3,0.1 --synthesis -l fr,en,de -t Cooker-i586 -i /cooker/i586/ 1/rpms boot -b -d Boot images/cdrom.img -f /cooker/i586/images
INSTALL section,force SYSTEM section,rate 20 MySQL-bench exclude svgalib limit,regexp netscape-navigator noalternatives,ignore,nosrc netscape regexp,nosrc mandrake_doc regexp,nosrc kdebase force kde-i18n rate 10,regexp,nosrc koffice-i18n rate 10,regexp,nosrc koffice force .*drake regexp,rate 20 drak.* regexp,rate 20 abiword rate 10 tuxracer rate 10 vim-minimal force drakfirsttime force kdebase-nsplugins rate 4 locales force,regexp kernel(.*(linus|mosix|xfs)) regexp,noalternatives kernel(?!.*(source)) regexp,force kernel-source rate 10 .* regexp
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