On Tuesday 11 January 2005 09:34 pm, Andy Yankovich wrote: > I installed the four CDs for the $12.99 edition of) 10.1 successfully > *except* that I could not retrieve the updates during the installation > procedure. When I attempt to update through Control Center I get the > following error message at the point of "starting download of "hdlist.cz > from medium 'Updates for Mandrakelinux 10.1 )ftplu)'. > > The error message reads, in its entirety: > "It's impossible to retrieve the list of new packages from the media > 'Updates for Mandrakelinux 10,1 (ftplu)'. Either this update is > misconfigured, and in this case you should use the Software Media Manager > to remove it and re-add it in order to reconfigure it, either it is > currently unreachable and you should retry later." > > I have re-attempted to update many times so I doubt it is currently busy. > > Can anyone please tell me how to "use the software manager to remove and > re-add it" and also how to re-configure it? > > Many thanks in advance. use urpmi go to http://www.linuxfordummies.org/addmedia/ follow the instructions cut and paste into a root terminal sit back and update after urpmi is configured issue the command urpmi.update -a && urpmi --auto-select -a
> > Andy
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