On Thursday 20 February 2003 08:56 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Thursday February 20 2003 02:15 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > > Tom, > > > > Beta 3 wouldn't erase my cd-rw so I had to finish off in > > micro$haft. Were you using d4x in beta 3? If so was it through > > urpmi? If so where from? I have added cooker main & contrib and > > another cooker to urpmi (can't remember which one), but it would > > not find it, also it will not find the nvidia drivers. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Tony. > > Well, I don't use RW's. I see no good reason to with CDr's at 30¢ > each. There's a very good reason not to, specially for iso's. RW's, > even when brand new, will not be as 'readable' as CDr's will. I > often suspect those that report problems with iso CD's failing to > install properly, fail to mention they're using cd-rw's. > > d4x is just a download buttler. It doesn't find, d/l, and install > updates as urpmi does. d4x is just a GUI frontend for wget. It just > make d/l'ing multiple files, specially more than one at a time, easy. > It definitely will resume failed d/l's and allows you to throttle how > much of your bandwidth to give to d/l'ing, among many other features. > > I use sunsite 'cause it's the primary mirror and updates often > (hourly). Unless you update cooker several times a day, you'd probly > be better off using one of the less busy mirrors listed on the mirror > list at http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 > > You won't find the nvidia drivers on Mandrake cooker mirrors. > MOF, you won't find any non-free and/or proprietary software. As for the cdrw disks, I think you are right. I could not get 9.1b3 to install, it would hang part way through in different places. 9.1rc1 Installed without a hitch, well except for the known hitches. So I think I will only use the cdrw's as a storage device and make sure I can read them at that. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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