----- Original Message ----- From: Charlie Mahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 09:45:21 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] cdrom4 woes
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 18 July 2004 08:25 am, Todd Slater wrote: > <snip> > > Josenildo, are you talking about installing Mandrake in general or Balsa > > in particular? I installed 10.0 without a hitch, but there were many > > apps i wanted to install that were on cd 4, so urpmi didn't work. I did > > eventually find what I was looking for online, it just wasn't as > > convenient as urpmi. > > > > Todd > > Sorry to butt in. Whatever apps are available from CD4, plus a lot more. are > still available from the mirror sites and other locations. The exception is > Club packages, you're on your own for those. > > Cancel CD4 during the installation, after the installation remove it from the > list of package sources and add a "main" and a "contrib" source from one of > the mirrors. urpmi will pull from whichever source it finds the package you > want from first so that shouldn't hamper regular stuff available from the > disks. > > The only packages I have had trouble installing during fresh installs recently > were ones the CD drive couldn't read. Written at a conservative 18x on an > A-Open 52x24x52, read for install in a new LG HL-DT-ST GCE-8525B. > > The new LG was trash. It happens. > > Regards; > Charlie >******************************************* Hey Charlie, thanks for the info. I just noted what you say to be the case indeed. I was trying to install eslrahc.com's k3b package and rpmdrake told me it couldn't unless I inserted cdrom4. It needed libid3_3.8_3-3.8.3-6mdk, which it wanted cdrom4 to access. I searched a main source mirror, and guess what?......there was the libid3 I needed. Go figure. Do the main mirrors have all of the packages from all 4 cd's? Regards....take care. --Angus PS. I recently purchased a LG HL-DT-ST GCE-8525B. :-|| Mine seems to be working OK for my purposes though. "Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness." -- James Thurber *********************************************** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 10.0~ *********************************************** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *********************************************** -- _____________________________________________________________ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. >From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze
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