Re: [newbie] Mirror recommendations for urpmi?
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 05:44:08 -0500 Hoyt Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suspect you problem has more to do with cooker than the mirrors. It > takes a chef to use cooker. OK. In that case, I am pretty good when it comes to whipping up a box of macaroni & cheese. :) > Regards; > Hoyt -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mirror recommendations for urpmi?
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 01:12:13 -0700 Amy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was hoping that you guys might be able to recommend some mirrors for > me to try? I'm located in the SF bay area, CA, USA, so if possible, I'm also in the SF Bay area, but I've mostly used European mirrors, especially in the early evening. I get better results, usually, with those (although uninett.no has been busy lately) than I do with the domestic mirrors. I have 1.5 kbps DSL and I can get ca. 160 kbps downloads from some of those European mirrors. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mirror recommendations for urpmi?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Margot wrote: | When selecting mirrors, it makes no difference where you live - you just | need to find one that works for you. The proxad mirrors in France are | generally reliable, but of course if everybody starts using a particular | mirror it will get slower for everyone! The proxad mirrors are what I've been using, and they've proven quite reliable, but many of the others are, too (FWIW, I've had the most trouble with U.S. mirrors). Check out the current status of cooker mirrors here: http://home.skycon.net/~junfan/cookermirrors.php I suspect, however, that your Thunderbird and Firefox problems are likely due to problems inherent in those upgrade packages based on the threads there of late. You can check the Cooker archives just as you do those for newbie or expert; go to: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker&r=1&w=2 [On an unrelated note, but I believe it was you who had shared the problems with messages from Oozy crashing TB, I've found that if I right click the folder, select Properties, and then check the box to apply the listed encoding (Western in my case) to all messages in the folder TB no longer crashes on those messages. I just had another one crash TB this morning (not from Oozy, but someone else using the Windows '1256' charset), and this seemed to fix it.] - -- Chuck MATTSEN / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Mahnomen, MN / RLU #346519 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-9mdk MT Lookup: http://eot.com/~mattsen/mtsearch.htm - -- Random Thought/Quote for this Message: ~ With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress. -- Ransom K. Ferm -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFA3rwC+qbiwggubBwRAu9rAJ4tp7zrP8mkz2GaD3w/cxV0wcNpRwCZAfZ0 vq7Jg7cnEzT8VrzBw/7CkmE= =n37A -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mirror recommendations for urpmi?
Amy wrote: Okay, so my friend has me running a cooker install of Mandrake, architecture i586, and I need reliable mirrors. I've used http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php to set up my mirrors so far, but the ones I pick seem to either be really super slow, or really weird about how they update their files leaving me with missing files that it tells me I should be able to install, or having some files updated, but files that are also needed due to dependencies (like perl!) being older and not correct for what I'm installing and/or updating. I was hoping that you guys might be able to recommend some mirrors for me to try? I'm located in the SF bay area, CA, USA, so if possible, something close to me would be best, but I'll make due with something farther away if the mirror is reliable about being updated correctly. I suspect that the problem I'm having with firefox and thunderbird (separate thread posted for that) has something to do with files they depend on not being updated at the same time as they were. Thanks in advance! ^_^ Amy, as you're running cooker, many people here and on the expert list won't be able to help you with your problems because they won't be experiencing the same problems you're having. I suggest you subscribe to the cooker mailing list (http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3) and lurk there for a while - you can't expect much in the way of tech support from the cooker list, it isn't designed for that, but at least you'll be able to keep an eye on the bug reports and fixes, some of which may be relevant to your situation. When selecting mirrors, it makes no difference where you live - you just need to find one that works for you. The proxad mirrors in France are generally reliable, but of course if everybody starts using a particular mirror it will get slower for everyone! Good luck! Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
