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I have Mageia 6 installed on second computer and am still trying to get connected. Since I download some required packages to a usb drive what is the command I should use to get the system to retrieve from the USB?



Also when trying to set up ndiswrapper I get message "insert core medium" What is the core medium please?

My computer is HP Pavilion t660a.

Thanks for any advice.

core medium i would say is the drive you booted and installed mageia from.

and inserting that should automount.

if you open dolphin on the desktop (plasma , and insert a usb stick you can click on the icon in the side panel to mount the usb device.)

to do it from the command line , you would need to know what device it is, dmesg can give you a hint as it will generate a message everytime you insert the usb stick.

then mount -o loop device "/directory to mount"

regards peter

janus wrote:Since I download some required packages to a usb drive what is the command I should use to get the system to retrieve from the USB?

If the usb stick is already mounted, then you can install the packages via

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urpmi /run/media/username/<USB_STICK_LABEL>/*.rpm

if you want to install all packages that are located at the top folder of the usb drive. Obviously username and <USB_STICK_LABEL>are placeholder, you need to replace them.

janus wrote: I get message "insert core medium" What is the core medium please?

see here : https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Install_medi ... _beginners
"Configure media sources for install and update"
if you want to disable this by unchecking the top entries that are cd-rom

If he doesn't have a network connection and is bootstrapping his wireless connection he should not disable this, as it's the only feasible way to easily install further dependencies that may be required (libiw, wireless-utils and such).

Thanks guys, will give it a try. I forgot to mention I have Xfce desktop if that makes a difference. Love the OS though.