Greg Martz wrote:
> Wow! After trying several versions of redhat, 2 of slackware, and 1 of
> TurboLinux I decided to get Mandrake and it installed first time. No other
> Linux distributions would install for me, way to go Mandrake!!
>
> Only problem right now I seem to be having is with the Mandrake Update
> program. I have been trying to run it and none of the mirrors seem to work.
> MDKUpdates opens and says "Please wait while fetching the list of upgrade
> packages...", waits for several minutes, then says I should try another
> mirror. I tried manually FTP'ing to a couple of the sites and was able to
> connect and login anonymously with no problems. A couple of other sites
> gave me a DNS error after logging in, I'm not sure about that problem
> either. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
> Greg
well you have to wait because I did that way in the morning AND it didnt work
so I tried at the afternoon NOW it works, I guess the other ftp sites r offline
or not accepting connections
