On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 10:29, Charlie wrote: > On December 21, 2002 03:17 pm, Seth Williamson wrote: > > I just installed Mandrake 9.0 on my system today for the first time. > > > > I am puzzled by the behavior of the Mandrake update system. > > > > When I start it, it (seemingly) just sits there for three or four or five > > minutes doing nothing. The first time I tried the update, I thought the > > system had locked up or something and nothing was happening. But > > apparently, it's working, but moving very S-L-O-W-L-Y. > > > > Another two or three minutes elapses between all the other steps of > > determining what packages are needed, contacting the mirror sites, and > > finally downloading and installing the software. The downloads > > themselves seem to proceed at a normal rate for my connection. > > > > Then, once the software is downloaded and installed, I can't seem to kill > > rmpdrake. It just sits there. After it tells me the software was > > installed successfully, and I OK out of that little box, then I hit the > > "quit" button, but the button won't depress, suggesting that the app is > > locked up or just not responding. I have to kill it with xkill. > > > > Is this normal behavior? I don't have a particularly fast > > connection--I'm on dial-up at 56K--but coming from a Debian distro > > (Libranet), the whole thing seems clunky and slow to me, and it strikes > > me as a bad idea that newbies can't tell if the update operation is > > actually moving along, or if it's locked up. > > Howdy Seth; > > It's looking for the 1st install CD. Put it (CD1) in the drive and you > won't have such slow responses. > > I have no idea why but mine does the same thing and fills the logs with > 'error accessing cdrom previous message repeated umpteen times' type of > fluff. I ignore them of course. > > It's a supermount thing. Supermount is still not quite "all things to all > hardware configurations" or all people for that matter. Just run update > with the CD in the drive and grit your teeth. > > Regards;
On a 56k MoDem mine takes around 10 minutes to download the database of packages before i can start selecting from them. -- Michael
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