Re: [Dragora-users] CD swap during install

[Matias Fonzo]

Hello Thomas,

You have not specified which version of Dragora you are trying to 
install, so I assume it is dragora-3.0-beta1.

Good to know that you want to install Dragora on a 1996 laptop.  For 
this you need the two ISOs, the live edition and the ISO containing the 
packages, the installer tries to look for the packages inside the 
"packages" directory.

I tell you that Dragora 3 beta1 was released in mid-October 2019, since 
then many changes have happened, for the better of course.  What I am 
going to do is also provide a DVD containing everything, both the live 
system and the packages.  Apart from this, I will be testing everything 
in virtual and non-virtual machine (under old computers I own), in order 
to guarantee the installation as much as possible.

I'm aiming to publish the next beta (beta2) which is already more 
complete and secure than beta1, this for mid March if everything goes 
well, so I recommend you to wait a little bit.. if someone wants to 
help, welcome.  :-)

El 2021-02-21 20:35, Thomas Sirack escribió:
> Hello folks,
>
> I intend to install Dragora onto an old laptop I intend to get soon. 
> Being
> from 1996, the laptop has no USB ports and only contains a CD-ROM 
> drive.
>
> However, doing some testing in a virtual machine to test the distro for 
> the
> laptop's hardware revealed a problem. After partitioning the disk, then
> running the dragora-install program, it prompted me to insert the 
> source
> media containing the packages. However, I could not normally eject the 
> boot
> disc from the virtual machine. Even when I forced it to, and then put 
> in
> the package disc, it didn't work. I kept getting various errors, such 
> as
> that the program could not find the source for the new disc, or that it 
> had
> tried to load files on the boot CD that could not be found because it
> wasn't there.
>
> I also tried this on real hardware using a 2009 netbook, without using 
> the
> USB ports for the packages, but got the same result.
>
> Am I missing something? Or is there another method of loading the 
> packages
> that I'm not aware of?
>
> Any possible solutions would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas