On Thursday 08 August 2002 02:44 pm, Alastair Scott wrote: <random (yeah right!) snips > > Write it up and post it to the [cooker] mailing list!
I think I figured it out after a long afternoon of reading and re-installing. I was using XFS for all the partitions except /boot and 9.0beta2 doesn't seem to like; a.) a separate boot partition, and; b.) XFS for /root. During the re-install I merged /boot and /root, used ext3 and no more "kernel panic VFS: unable to mount root at 03:05!" and no more stuck boots are happening. I've restarted this damned thing more times in the past 48 hours than I have in the past 4 to 5 months. :-( > > Updating is not obvious and, as you'll see later, is problematic because of > the nature of the beta process. > > The first thing to do is to type from a root prompt: > > edit-urpm-sources.pl Has anyone told you lately that you're a gentleman and a scholar? Allow me to say so! Thanks, but I just tried it and it isn't working. This is what I got: added medium cooker examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.disc 1 MandrakeLinux 9.0 beta2 (x86) (cdrom1).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.disc 2 Mandrake Linux 9.0 beta 2 (x86) (cdrom2).cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.disc 3 Mandrake Linux 9.0 beta 2 (x86) (cdrom3).cz] retrieving description file of "cooker"... retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "cooker"... ftp://ftp://newton.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMSwton.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist.cz: Bad port number. ...retrieving failed: retrieve of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed no hdlist file found for medium "cooker" examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.cooker.cz] problem reading synthesis file of medium "cooker" write config file [/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cf and just trying to get to the site (browser, ftp program etc.) gets me an error message: "The file or directory....(the url) does not exist. > > This puts you into a GUI so you don't have to remember the urpmi syntax. I > then press Add (source) and put into the boxes (after selecting 'FTP > server'): > > Name: > cooker > URL: > ftp://newton.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mand >rake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMSwton.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/p >ub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS Relative > path to synthesis/hdlist: > ../base/hdlist.cz > > Unfortunately there are two big problems every time you do a urpmi > - --auto-select: > > i. hdlist.cz is 14MB+ and probably has to be downloaded every time; > > ii. because cooker is constantly changing, with RPMs added every day, > you're in for huge downloads; first time I was asked to download 917MB of > files! Not a problem here; ceiling is 10 GB/month download and 3 GB/month upload on this cable connection. > > I fled after ii and am going to keep testing with respect to the baseline; > I strongly suspect that the only people who're keeping fully up to date > with cooker have company or university connections with massive bandwidth. Like myself you mean? :-) I'll find a way to update the sucker. I like it so far. > > Alastair > - -- > Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) > http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE9UthNdasIDb/2nMwRAhq+AJ0YzKQ0b/6vRwdZDYa6/Ef/6Qc4bgCfYrT4 > 2fr1qFMurMUW21pjrb79Xfg= > =lszs > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Sorry for the long message, I didn't cc: the list 'cause I didn't figure you needed it twice. Charlie
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