Dave Horsfall wrote:
>
> Mandrake 7.2 on a nondescript P133, 32Mb memory.
>
> I did a "developer" install (which doesn't install everything, as I later
> found) and tried to get the live updates with the GUI. It picks a site at
> random, and I select "Update All", and over the next day or so it happily
> updates most things. There were some warnings about conflicts, so I
> played it safe and skipped them (I guess Update processes in alphabetical
> order, instead of making a dependency tree).
>
> However, at the end there were still many modules which cannot be updated
> at all, even when I select them exclusively, for example apache, kde,
> glibc, etc. The error is "Error accessing remote file" (or similar; I
> didn't write it down).
>
> Anyone seen this? Try as I might, even with different mirrors, I get the
> same bland error message... Specifying the exact error would go a long
> way to solving this, like, is it my problem, or a network problem...
>
> I also found if I tried it long enough, it told me to use another site, so
> I guess there's a per-IP download limit?
>
> Other than that, I'm quite impressed with Mandrake, despite being in the
> Unix game for over 20 years...
>
> -- Dave
Dave,
Rather than using the update utility, I would recommend navigating to
one of the many ftp sites and downloading the updates.
Romna
