On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 04:13:11 +0800 "Franki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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... > > PLEASE DO NOT Start a new message by sticking it on top of another. As to your problem upgrade to rpmdrake-1.3-106mdk from cooker. To prevent the cd db from being scanned each time you can delete them in the source list. When you run Mandrake Update launch it from a terminal as rpmdrake, this will give you an output of what the program is actually doing. Charles
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