Trent M. Gunnarson wrote:
Thanks for the link,
I've used that info and created usable ISO images but in my situation, even
>the install scripts are different than the downloadable ISO. Now before you
>start asking questions, I'll tell you what I did to create my local mirror
>and then the ISOs for burning.
>
>1) rsync -avP --delete ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake/9.0/i586/
>/Data/Mandrake9/cooker/i586
>
>I started doing that via an hourly cron job a week before release so I
>wouldn't be standing in line on the day of release. As packages were
>updated, the correct dates and files would arrive; I checked quite often :-)
>
>2) mkcd --discsize 734000000 --isodir /home -a /Data/Mandrake9/cooker/i586/
>
>What I got was an install script that when it got to selecting packages, there
>was *no* tree view but I could view the packages in flatfile mode. There were
>other glitches here and there that let me know things were *not* working
>well. So, instead of really giving my friend a headache, I downloaded the 3
>pre-made ISOs and burned them for him. Things looked quite a bit better and
>worked according to the established high standards of the Mandrake team.
>
>Now for the million dollar questions; What did I do wrong ? How can I make it
>work right ?
>
>I'd like to be a good 'Net citizen and not download the entire ISO set
>frequently so I'm trying to find a way to save bandwidth for others. Call me
>a conservation nut but with the local drought, I even catch shower water and
>drive my recyclables downtown to the proper station. So for the sake of
>others, if not for myself, please help me resolve this issue of wasted
>bandwidth :-)
>
>
>
Hi
I had this problem sometimes with cooker. I do not think you made
anything wrong. Don't forget this is not the stable branch, and
sometimes mkcd may be broken. This is strange since cooker has not been
"defrost" yet, but I have seen some bug reports about mkcd on that list
recently. Maybe it has been modified. Another possibility is that some
*.img or hdlist have not been updated or have been changed, and the
packages may not be installable. So it can work perfectly in two or
three days...
If you want a lot of packages, now a contrib directory can be found in
the stable 9.0 release directory. You can copy these packages on a CD
(you need 2 CDs since there is 1.2 Go of stuff) and add them to the
database with urpmi.addmedia. Or download the complete 9.0 and contrib
branch and use mkcd to make a set of CD containing all the stuff.
Another thing : the synthesis.hdlist2.cz file in contrib is dated of the
21st for a directory dated of the 27th Sep. For any reason it has not
been updated. You can recreate it using gendistrib (I guess). I signaled
that issue on this list, maybe it will be corrected soon.
Eric
