On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote:
> The reason I was upset is I just spent a week of intense trying to fix
> Mandrake 5.3 which didn't seem to be that bad and I am not looking forward
> to trying to fix Mandrake 6 which I thought would be ok. For some reason
> the Mandrake updates is not working. Not sure what it is supposed to do, is
> it just a web page? Or does it actually update your system. I know none of
> this is going to update right, so I am thinking of getting Mandrake 6.1 if I
> can get a copy on a CD since I don't have a CD burner. I just think sending
> Venus out with such serious problems was bad, but then not to update the
> packages shipped long after the release was really bad.
> Jeanette
Mandrakeupdate, is an update utility
It retieves the list of mirrors
retrieves a list of updates from the mirror you selected
compares whats installed on your system with whats on the mirror
shows you those that are relevent to your system
here you choose which ones you want
it downloads them and upgrades the packages
It should update just fine, i haven't seen any reported problems
Again our applogies for the kernel and initscripts problems. They were not
discovered in time to halt the pressing of the cd's.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 9:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] File System not unmounting cleanly check forced
>
>
> > Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> >
> > > > Jeanette....not long ago a contributer to one of these mdk support
> lists
> > > > wrote that the KPPP supplied with 6.0 initializes the config file with
> a
> > > > null for speed (even though the window in the GUI setup says 57600)
> and
> > > > that this causes the connection to time out without anything
> happening.
> > > > He said that to fix this just change the speed setting, save it, then
> if
> > > > 57600 was what you wanted, go back and change it back to 57600. This
> > > > made sense to me because I experienced the same symptoms and changed
> my
> > > > setting to 115200 and that fixed my PPP connect problem (I've never
> > > > changed mine back). I'll bet that it will fix yours too.
> > > >
> > > > Alan
> >
> > Jeanette Russo wrote:
> > >
> > > I gave it a try and it does seem to work now, thanks Alan,
> > > Jeanette
> >
> > Jeanette....Glad to have been some help. (-: I notice that you seem a
> > bit agitated concerning mdk 6.0 in your last few posts to this list.
> > Relax. (-: Now that you've got the PPP connection working, use the
> > update icon to update all the files that the update program lists for
> > you. Take a break and then download the updated kernal (2.2.9-27) and
> > follow the installation directions carefully. You'll be done with it
> > all in no time and you'll be glad you did it. (-: Enjoy.
> >
> > Alan
> >
>
>
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