On Sunday 19 January 2003 02:46 pm, Charlie wrote: <more surgical snips. with a broad-axe>
> > > BTW I have one empty 30 GB (Reiser FS formatted) partition called > > > /store available on hdb. Would that be more appropriate? Since I'm > > > going to mirror the entirety of cooker it may become useful for someone > > > down the line. No longer an empty partition. It's full of complete mirror of cooker as of 5:45 AM MST. Unfortunately there's a problem which I'll get into later. > > > > It certainly is. If you are concerned about you bandwidth and harddrive > > space you can also make a file (i called it 'ignore.txt') where you list > > all the packages that you are not interested in downloading. So if you > > are using it solely as a desktop you can put apache, and other servers in > > that file and it shall not sync them. Then you have to use the additional > > switch with rsync: I was so !worried about space and bandwidth that I didn't exclude anything at all. It's a complete copy of what's on sunet.se. > > rsync -avrt --progress --delete --exclude-from=/home/nanook/ignore.txt > > ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586 /home/nanook/burn/cooker/ > > Perfect. Thank you. > Onward and sideways. My install is a slight bit broken in some respect and I don't have a clue how to find the problem to file a bug report or fix it. To wit: For some reason my CD-ROM is being identified by harddrake as dev/scd0. It's identified by name but, Bus: SCSI Location on the bus: 0:0 Channel: 00 New devfs device: scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd Old device file: /dev/scd0 Floppy format: LITEON CD-ROM LTN403L Media class: cdrom is in no way correct. There's no scsi interface in this box and I clicked no at the installer question. To try to figure out whether it was a hardware problem I actually re-installed Mandrake 9.0 in a different hard drive and there was no trouble. In fact fstab has what seems to be correct listings for the CD-ROM and my CD-RW (Mitsumi CR-4804 TE) which is connected and jumpered as slave on the second IDE channel with the LiteOn. The only clue I have is this one: Vendor: Intel Corporation Bus: PCI Bus identification: 8086:7111 Location on the bus: 0:7:1 Description: 82371AB PIIX4 IDE Module: unknown Media class: STORAGE_IDE I don't know if this is a harddrake problem, a devfs problem, or both. The whole point here is that I can't update through urpmi or Software Manager since the "CD-1 is not enabled" error happens no matter what I do. Does anyone have a hint? I'll send an edited copy of this to the cooker list and take the ragging or ignoring I know will result, but I can't make a useful bug report or help analyze the trouble if I don't know where the hell to start looking. Thanks for any suggestions offered. Regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 http://counter.li.org How can you govern a nation which has 246 kinds of cheese? -- Charles de Gaulle
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