Hi all,
Is anyone else having heaps of trouble with mandrake update on 8.1? First of all, its slow, secondly, it insists on scanning the system and its db of all the CD's each time you start it... and since I have to kill it alot because it sits there doing nothing, it takes ages to try again.. Anyone had any luck getting MandrakeUpdate from 7.2 compiled for 8.1? This is a case backasswards development, 7.2's software update was easy to use, easy to configure and it worked, most of all it was simple and obvious. The software update in 8.1 gives you buggar all feedback on what its doing, I am sitting here watching it do nothing,, I started software Installer, selected bugs general updates and security updates, and it found Mozilla, and the SSH packages... I think great, that wasn't that hard, even if it did take ages... (alot longer then 7.2) anyway, I clicked continue, after selecting all the packages except Mozilla, (do that after ssh is updated was my thinking). Anyway I have a screen now that says, Install in progress, you can see below the installation state, and the rest of the window is blank except for the quit, back, next and help buttons none of which are highlighed so that I can click them. Its been like that for an hour, doing absolutly nothing, no CPU or HDD activity, and no net activity. So whats with that? Also, before someone tells me to try another mirror, this is the forth I have tried, and gottn no further with any of them. Most annoying, I'll ask again, has anyone got mdk7.2 SoftwareUpdate working with 8.1???? I need a workable solution before I put these things out as servers... rgds Frank =============================================== -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 3:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] HD spin down On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > OK, I did this: > > > > hdparm -S 6 /dev/hda > > hdparm -S 6 /dev/hdb > > > > to set both HD's to spin down after 30 seconds, just to test and see if it > > would work. It didn't, and I didn't see anything for troubleshooting on > > either the man page, or at mandrakeuser.org. Whats my next move? > > > > I don't think there's meant to be a space between the "S" and the number. Here's > what I use: > > hdparm -c1d1S242 /dev/hda > > You can ignore the "c1d1" here. Notice, however, the "S242" (242 = 1 hour) on > the end of the tag. > > Also, there may be background processes that still require the filesystem. I > don't think 30 seconds would be long enough for everything to settle down. Try > setting the interval to a few minutes, and then try it when there's nothing else > (including X) running. > > Another thing to consider is your filesystem. If you use ReiserFS, the FS is > polled every five minutes. This makes spindowns unlikely to work for drives with > mounted ReiserFS partitions. Ext2, swap and FAT are fine in this regard. I don't > know about the other journalling FSs. Hmm...OK, I tried taking out the space, but the same thing happened, ie the output told me the same thing, so I think it works with the space too. But, it still didn't work...and I do use ReiserFS. Guess it's time to kick this one up to the expert list, eh? Thanks for your help, Sridhar... peace, Rog "The guy was all over the place. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him"
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