[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. pack needed installed package(s)
2. put it in the urpmi cache (or where ever...)
3. rename it (pretty much like the troels perl script)
4. run rsync
5. do update
For general information, the troels.rsync6.2.pl Mandrake downloader was
recently replaced by a suite of
John Allen wrote:
Try this script; it creates a 1680k formatted floppy.
Yes,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ron]# ./mkbootdisk --device /dev/floppy/0u1680 2.4.22-10mdk
creates a floppy,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ron]# ls -l /local/floppy
total 1584
-rwxr--r--1 root root 204 Oct 23 00:35 boot.msg*
The download for the Linux application/x-shockwave-flash plugin from
macromedia will not install on Mandrake 9.2
Does anybody know where to get a plugin that does install and work?
--
Ron. [Melbourne, Australia]
If you keep a green bough in your heart, the singing bird will come
Get Fastest
illogic-al wrote:
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 09:51 am, Ron Stodden wrote:
The download for the Linux application/x-shockwave-flash plugin from
macromedia will not install on Mandrake 9.2
Does anybody know where to get a plugin that does install and work?
the rpm from macromedia worked for me
John Allen wrote:
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 14:51, Ron Stodden wrote:
The download for the Linux application/x-shockwave-flash plugin from
macromedia will not install on Mandrake 9.2
Does anybody know where to get a plugin that does install and work?
I have mozilla-flash-1.3-1tex installed
The new 9.2 contribs jpackage directory, specifically:
rsync rsync://ftp.sunet.se:873/Mandrake/9.2/contrib/jpackage/i586/
contains 415 noarch RPMs of the form:
adaptx-0.9.6-1jpp.noarch.rpm
placed there by the JPackage (David Walluck) project.
What is this JPackage project?
Does it have a web
Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote:
The new 9.2 contribs jpackage directory, specifically:
rsync rsync://ftp.sunet.se:873/Mandrake/9.2/contrib/jpackage/i586/
contains 415 noarch RPMs of the form:
adaptx-0.9.6-1jpp.noarch.rpm
placed there by the JPackage (David Walluck) project.
What is this JPackage
Guillaume Rousse wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] RPMS.free]$ LANGUAGE=C rpm -qip ant-1.5.4-2jpp.noarch.rpm
Name: ant Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version : 1.5.4 Vendor: JPackage Project
Release : 2jpp Build
John Allen wrote:
Ron Stodden wrote:
Thanks! I will investigate ant some more.The 9.2 download
edition installed jaffe for me ...
You can get the Sun j2sdk/j2re from MandrakeClub
Really? There are no 9.2 unsupported-MandrakeClub items yet, and no
j2* RPMs in the 9.1 unsupported
Duncan wrote:
If you don't use core files for debugging, it's probably wise to turn them
off. See the ulimit builtin from BASH, and the entry in /etc/profile.
Note that the default is no core files, and the profile entry turns them
on for root, with a limit of 1,000,000x1024 bytes!! With a
Simon Oosthoek wrote:
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:04:01AM +1000, Ron Stodden wrote:
Another 9.2 showstopper!
Post it at: bugs.mandrakelinux.com
No. I have legally carried out my only duty - to notify MandrakeSoft,
the owner of the cooker mailing list. To do that is all that can
possibly
Randy Welch wrote:
Ron Stodden wrote:
John
FWIW, this exact same problem also existed in 9.1, so it is not a 9.2
regression.
Ahh but in 9.1 you could create a floppy from drakfloppy. You cannot do
that in 9.2.
I filed a bug report on it
Interesting. drakfloppy provides a pulldown list
Steffen Barszus wrote:
It was just an advice that you maybe could do so. I see no argument for
starting a philosophic discussion, lets better find the reason for your
symptoms.
Agreed.
Do you have an idea what could have created the files ?
No, not the slightest.I would have said. It was
Buchan Milne wrote:
Come on Ron, please don't be so dramatic on every problem you have,
until you can actually provide a useful bug report.
The degree of dramaticness has nothing to do with whether there is a
reproducible bug report. This has occurrred three times under 9.1 and
now once under
Buchan Milne wrote:
So, only super experts are able to use the rescue option. Oh, I forgot,
you missed that option.
I doubt that rescue will run if / is full.
--
Ron. [Melbourne, Australia]
If you keep a green bough in your heart, the singing bird will come
Get Fastest Mandrake downloader,
the 5465 indicate?
The only 3rd party software is my gShield firewall and privoxy called by
mozilla as 127.0.0.1.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Ron Stodden wrote:
The degree of dramaticness has nothing to do with whether there is a
reproducible bug report. This has occurrred three
Michael Scherer wrote:
ok, this maybe a coredump.
can you place it on the web somewhere, so someone with enough skill to
run file core.5465 can enlighten us with the name of the crashed
program ?
http://members.optusnet.com.au/ronst/download/ (use Save Link Target as)
you can also put some of
Michael Scherer wrote:
On Saturday 18 October 2003 20:56, Ron Stodden wrote:
Michael Scherer wrote:
ok, this maybe a coredump.
can you place it on the web somewhere, so someone with enough skill
to run file core.5465 can enlighten us with the name of the
crashed program ?
http
Brook Humphrey wrote:
well just guessing here but if they say defanged in them the only thing I know
that does that is anomy-sanitizer which I just put into contribs. The only
reason it would be doing this at all is if you are being sent a whole bunch
of virii. In which case it deletes the
Brook Humphrey wrote:
no problem you would no if you installed it. It has a specific use and it is
unlikely you would have installed it by accident or by default. It was added
to contribs after 9.2 was finished.
It was added to cooker contribs, not 9.2 contribs. They are two
separate trees.
Jaimon Jose wrote:
Does anyone know of a ftp site where we can download 9.2. I find
bittorrent is way too slow. Estimated time to complete download is 747
hrs for me. Is mandrakeclub providing ftp access for 9.2.
Thanks for the help in advance.
Simple! Use the popular rsync fast downloader
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Oddly, installing all the 9.2 updates solved all problems
(although there is no apparent reason why in the explains of the
RPMs involved).
There seems there is still an odd locking problem when we
launch update-menus from
Greg Meyer wrote:
On Thursday 16 October 2003 11:37 am, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Oddly, installing all the 9.2 updates solved all problems
(although there is no apparent reason why in the explains of the
RPMs involved).
There seems there is still an odd
Buchan Milne wrote:
OK, so your reproducible case is that when you install some packages,
the menus get broken, and when you install some other packages, they
don't. Very reproducible. Not.
Exactly and precisely reproducible as described, YES!
Have you tried it?
--
Ron. [Melbourne, Australia]
9.2 cannot produce a floppy boot disk!
The installer option to produce a boot 1.44 floppy, if you can manage to
find it from its hiding place, produces only an ?Error! message.
That floppy will not boot the system.
Trying explicitly leads to exactly the same behaviour and again produces
a
John Allen wrote:
On Friday 17 October 2003 12:17, Buchan Milne wrote:
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Get a bigger floppy disk, or use ext2 filesystems only, or provide a
patch to make smaller kernels.
Yes; but who is responsible for this. 9.2 has been released with
Buchan Milne wrote:
Of course, it would be nice to have it working by default, but Ron
always goes overboard on his small niggles in the first two weeks of a
release (he could have tested this in the beta series of course ...).
Not so. I periodically tested the cooker tree for the ability to
Buchan Milne wrote:
Rescue is available for network and hd installs. Have you tried it? I
have used it a few times on a network install.
That´s news to me.
Pray tell us how rescue is initiated from an hd or network install, and
where that is so unmissably documented that I must have missed it
Buchan Milne wrote:
Using the rescue mode of CD1 remains the only way to recover from an
unbootable (lilo, grub, XOSL, etc.) system. hd or network installed
systems do not have any CDs, nor can they be made with mkcd on an
unbootable system. Catch 22?
Ron Stodden wrote:
Pray tell us where
Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote:
FWIW, this exact same problem also existed in 9.1, so it is not a 9.2
regression.
well not exactly
in 9.1 the problem was only with xfs (module is ~300k)
Disagree. I am talking about a vanilla ext2 install of 9.1 - it cannot
produce a boot floppy.
--
Ron.
H ... There is an internet users convention that limits signatures
to a maximum of four lines.
Buchan Milne wrote:
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- --
|--Another happy Mandrake Club member--|
Buchan Milne
Another 9.2 showstopper!
Two days in, the use of 9.2 was totally stopped by a 100% full root
directory, a situation which is essentially unrecoverable for all but
super-experts.
/ is a 5GB partition which returned 7.2 GB to du -s / (probably due to
the inclusion of /proc).
Investigation of
Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote:
what does your 9.1 install tells for ls -l /boot/vmlinuz*`
My 9.1 is my lowest numbered Linux partition, so it has the job of
lilo-booting everything. I install a Linux to use its own partition
as lilo boot manager. Since this approach neglects the requirement
magic wrote:
That would be great, problem is once the graphical interface starts; I
can not get back to the console screens.
Yes you can...Ctrl+Alt+F3 Ctrl+Alt+F4 etc.
Ctrl+Alt+F7 to return to the GUI.
--
Ron. [Melbourne, Australia]
If you keep a green bough in your heart, the singing
9.2 - disaster already?
After an hd.img install of everything except servers, I immediately see
that most of the kde RPMs were not installed with no installer error
indication.
After manually installing them and trying uselessly to run World Clock
the amusement menu is rendered useless and
Oddly, installing all the 9.2 updates solved all problems (although
there is no apparent reason why in the explains of the RPMs involved).
Ron Stodden wrote:
9.2 - disaster already?
After an hd.img install of everything except servers, I immediately see
that most of the kde RPMs were
Warly wrote:
When we will be sure these ISOs are really final, that is to say by
the end of next week, club members and contributors should have
exclusive access to the download edition ISOs.
For others ISOs will be freely available worldwide by the end of october.
Warly,
But what is your plan
Adam,
Look at the title of this thread. Subject is 9.2, and this is the
cooker mailing list.
Adam Williamson wrote:
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 13:06, Ron Stodden wrote:
Distributing the tree instead of the ISO takes negligibly more mirror
space and suits everyone, as long as mkcd is included so
rsync-plus.
The documentation of rsync-plus on my web site (see sig) has been
updated so as to now include instructions for executing the rsync-plus
perl modules.
Thanks for bringing this oversight to my attention.
To cause rsync-plus to download Mandrake for all languages, just don't
Felix, et al,
Are you not aware of our very popular fastest Mandrake downloader? It
will always beat the use of raw rsync when there are updates to
download. See sig.
It properly downloads updated kernel RPMs usually distributed in
Mandrake Updates. These are correctly installed as
I didn't have quite as much bad luck with rc2 as Pierre Fortin did, but,
as usual, so much that is so obvious to anyone who tries to install it
that I do not report such things because of their obviousness. This
makes me critical of Mandrake's alpha testing, and I will not cooperate
with
ftp.praxad.fr is not a good choice of mirror. You may choose any mirror
that supports rsync access and has Mandrake stuff.
Try rsync://ftp.sunet.se:873
See the first few lines of your rsync-isoCD.pl
ftp.nluug.nl supports rsync access, but not to mandrake stuff. To
verify try:
rsync
The troels team is very pleased indeed to announce the availability of
rsync-plus, a new fast Mandrake downloader (English only) - see the sig
below for the URL.
You may now:
Specify different exclude files for each download tree,
Specify additional options to rsync. --delete is suggested
Warly wrote:
Robert Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The main mirror is messed up - and because I use the following rsync
parameters - I lost my entire local copy!! Even worse, I have a limited
2MB ADSL line which I have to pay for when I exceed 5Gig of traffic a
month! Thanks to this mess up,
Adam Williamson wrote:
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 02:59, Ron Stodden wrote:
Yes, I know this problem. You can avoid rebooting by:
1. Check that your swapfile is not full. If it is, generate a much
bigger one.
My swapfile is 1.5GB. Not likely to be the problem
Yes, I know this problem. You can avoid rebooting by:
1. Check that your swapfile is not full. If it is, generate a much
bigger one.
Tip: Use a console (Ctrl+Alt+F2), log in as root, and run top.
Swapfile stats are at the top.
This will then be there whenever you want it. whether KDE
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
GC,
Another serious deficiency discovered ...
The rescue facility on the 9.1 CD 1 is also incompatible with the
on-board Promise PDC20nn chips. Mother boards with this chip
prevent rescue from seeing any IDE devices
GC,
Another serious deficiency discovered ...
The rescue facility on the 9.1 CD 1 is also incompatible with the
on-board Promise PDC20nn chips. Mother boards with this chip prevent
rescue from seeing any IDE devices beyond IDE1.
A rescue facility should NOT itself ever require to be
Oh, dear!
Catastrophe!
Aug 1 Cooker will not install from hd.img when the motherboard includes
the Promise PDC2072 chip which provides ATA100, ATA133, and RAID operation.
This is a well reported legacy problem from MDK 9.1 and should have been
corrected months ago!
Correction requires the
Anyone trying to help you would need to know:
1 Whether you are using supermount (advice: don't! At a terminal
prompt enter: supermount disable).
2 Whether you have successfully been able to mount and read other data CDs.
3 Whether you can mount this CD1 and examine its content.
4.
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
9.0 installed and runs perfectly on this configuration on both machines.
We therefore have a show-stopper regression. Serious!
We often have
Thomas Backlund wrote:
Could you head over to
http://www.iki.fi/tmb/Cooker/
and try my boot fix disks
Looks like you have done a lot of good work -
But:
1.You claim these to be Cooker fixes. I want 9.1 fixes.
2.9.0 Mozilla Downloader just hangs without downloading anything for
Thomas Backlund wrote:
Could you head over to
http://www.iki.fi/tmb/Cooker/
and try my boot fix disks
I tried it.
Good news:
1. Replaced the hd.img floppy syslinux.cfg and vmlinuz with those from
your boot.img
2. 9.1 installer now runs. Installation completed after adding your fix
Adam Williamson wrote:
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 21:51, Claudio wrote:
Are the Mandrake guys aware that these updates just don't seem to be
getting pushed to mirrors? I've tried club-internet.fr, lip6.fr and
sunet.se today and none of them are getting updates. What's wrong? --
adamw
Try
Steffen Barszus wrote:
As I understood it is a PDC 202xx issue
It was told me to have
# CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE
enabled would fix it.
Unfortunately I find no such kernel config option in the standard 9.2
kernel configurator (make xconfig).
--
Ron. [Melbourne, Australia]
20030119 Get
Adam Williamson wrote:
Ron - and understand that I ask this purely in a spirit of scientific
inquiry - *why* is it that you're always so hopelessly wrong about
everything?
cd /usr/src/linux
cat .config | grep PDC202XX_FORCE
# CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE is not set
My statement was correct.
Just
Steffen Barszus wrote:
Hi!
I know somebody has written a howto rsync Cooker. I want to try to rsync a
local copy of Cooker with isdn. Or should I better use urpmi with rsync to
get updates ?
Look at the stuff on my web site (see sig).
--
Ron. [Melbourne, Australia]
20030119 Get Fastest
Bad news - 9.1 Show-Stopper!
On my machine with a Soltek motherboard and an add-on PCI Promise IDE23
controller 9.1 installs from hd.img and the 9.1 tree faultlessly.
On my other machine with a Gigabyte motherboard with integrated Promise
controller Installing 9.1 from an hd.img floppy
Kevin J. Maciunas wrote:
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 20:30, Ron Stodden wrote:
Bad news - 9.1 Show-Stopper!
On my machine with a Soltek motherboard and an add-on PCI Promise IDE23
controller 9.1 installs from hd.img and the 9.1 tree faultlessly.
On my other machine with a Gigabyte motherboard
Buchan Milne wrote:
Ron Stodden wrote:
Bad news - 9.1 Show-Stopper!
Yes, it's known, but it's too late now, this should have been caught in
RC (which implies the kernel *must* *not* change in RC).
So what do I do? Mandrake needs to give an authoritative reply.
Is an update on the way
Steffen Barszus wrote:
I understood it is a PDC 202xx issue
It was told me to have
# CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE
enabled would fix it.
But there seems to be an issue ... hmm don't care. I can only forward
informations of others on these topic ... i could maybe reach a list of
twenty people with
Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
I've been having problems printing to an HP Deskjet 970C using the
Foomatic+hpijs drivers ever since an update to printer-drivers a couple
weeks ago. I had this happen once before due to some interface change,
and the solution was to remove the print queue and re-add
Salane wrote:
After seeing the program dog( as in a more powerful form of cat) in contribs I
was wondering, what happened to the program more?
There is an oddity between more and less in MDK 9.0:
[ron@small ron]$ which more
/bin/more
[ron@small ron]$ ls -l /bin/more
-rwxr-xr-x1 root
Frank Griffin wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to get fmirror to do this, or suggest another
tool that will ?
Explore my web site below for a very popular solution to the whole problem.
--
Ron. [Melbourne, Australia]
20030119 Get Fastest Mandrake downloader (English-only),
Penguin Liberation
Oden Eriksson wrote:
onsdagen den 15 januari 2003 16.49 skrev Ron Stodden:
Oden Eriksson wrote:
Some perl hacker could probably make this work, maybe even Troels
himself? If I knew how to code I would have started yesterday with this.
No perl? Then try something good, like gprolog
Brian J. Murrell wrote:
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 06:39:22PM +0200, Thomas Backlund wrote:
Seriously the troels script is on the right track,
but not everyone needs/wants/has to use english-only install...
You are totally missing the point of the troels script. OK, not
totally, but have you
Chuck Shirley wrote:
On Thursday 16 January 2003 22:05, Quel Qun wrote:
kernel-2.4.21.0.pre3.1mdk
Not that I really care, but where will it end? wouldn't
kernel-2.4.21.pre3.1mdk be enough?
--
Quel Qun [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Indeed. Once again Mr. Ron Stodden's perl script for rsync mirroring
is
Pixel wrote:
Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
All logical partitions must be in cylinder order in the various MBRs along the
extended chain
for Windows. Partition Magic does this.
must be is truly wrong. There's no such things as a specification for this.
Sad, isn't it? I am
Oden Eriksson wrote:
Some perl hacker could probably make this work, maybe even Troels himself? If
I knew how to code I would have started yesterday with this.
No perl? Then try something good, like gprolog?
--
Ron. [Melbourne, Australia]
20030106 updates now available for Fastest
Oden Eriksson wrote:
Would it be possible to run updates via rsync?
Suppose it would work like this:
1. Check against a online list what's new.
2. Decide What to fetch.
3. Test which mirror is the fastest.
4. Prompt for original packages from CDROM, or make a rpm package on the fly
from
Felix Miata wrote:
Pixel wrote:
Pascal Cavy wrote:
All logical partitions must be in cylinder order in the various MBRs along the extended chain
for Windows. Partition Magic does this.
must be is truly wrong. There's no such things as a specification
for this.
Not a specification, a
Pixel wrote:
Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
4. Cooker uses an ext2fs which is incompatible with the 9.0 extfs. When a
9.0 partition and a cooker partition are both present on the same dev/hd and
one attempts an install or reinstall of a 9.0 partition, the 9.0 installer
carks it loudly
John Allen wrote:
I do understand that, but a better mirroring application would be a great
help. I think I will start just such an application ASAP.
I think you will end up reinventing rsync, no?
--
Ron. [Melbourne, Australia]
20030106 updates now available for Fastest Mandrake
andre wrote:
On Monday 13 January 2003 03:06, Ron Stodden wrote:
2. The following RPMs are not present in addition to those in 1 above):
libtobe
unicon-input
FreeWnn
chininput
xcin
ami
kon
xa+cv
xenkb
XFree86-serever-4.2.99
libijs
ne
Most of these are Japanes, Korean or Chinese and i
Christophe Combelles wrote:
When trying to install with root partition = hdd10,
the install fails with :
Unknown device hdd10 (caller is fs:/usr/bin/perl-install/fs.pm:540
line 540 for ext3, and 550 for reiserfs, and maybe other similar lines
for other fs.
There is no error with hdd9 or
Buchan Milne wrote:
Boot 9.1 rescue option and e2fsck?
But will this work for a 9.0/9.1b dual-boot sharing an ext2/3 partition?
I can't get my mind around that!Wot, a 9.0 and a 9.1 on the SAME
partition? Ne c'est pas possible (I hope).
If you meant the same DRIVE and both ext2/3, no
Buchan Milne wrote:
Ron Stodden wrote:
If you meant the same DRIVE and both ext2/3, no they cannot coexist out
of the box without you do some fiddling.
Shared /home on ext3.
I guess if I'm going to beta, I will have to fiddle ...
A shared /home partition (yes I do this too) between 9.0
Pixel wrote:
Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Also something rewrites /etc/lilo.conf and fumbles append statements which
include two hd? = ide-scsi statements (ie you have two CDROM drives) by
dropping the second one entirely.
please give me /root/drakx/report.bug.gz
Alas
Pascal Cavy wrote:
I suspect diskdrake to have a bug in certain conditions.
I have noticed several mdk installations where fdisk or cfdisk complains about
overlapping partitions, or partitions not ending on cylinder boundary (for ex
the first primary ending on 788 for exemple and the extented
Levi Ramsey wrote:
Stupid question perhaps, but does the troels script run a gendistrib
after downloading?
No, it does not.Why might it do so? I have never met any
documentation of gendistrib, etc. - so much for Mandrake's most dubious
QA. I'm still waiting.
--
Ron.
? There are about double the RPMs in the download tree
more than what are installed and these never will be installed unless
done manually. Whatever the philosophy behind this may be, the
effect is that Mandrake has shot itself in the foot yet again.
Ron Stodden wrote:
On the assumption
Pixel wrote:
Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
4. Cooker uses an ext2fs which is incompatible with the 9.0 extfs. When a
9.0 partition and a cooker partition are both present on the same dev/hd and
one attempts an install or reinstall of a 9.0 partition, the 9.0 installer
carks it loudly
Thomas Backlund wrote:
From: Michael Scherer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
if you type './MakeCD --help', the optio that regulates disksize states:
-- discsize disc size in bytes
Select a custom disc size (default 68100).
that default translates to 649.5MB
Not my experience - the Coooker
Leon Brooks wrote:
On Saturday 11 January 2003 01:32 am, Buchan Milne wrote:
I have 6+ Mandrake 8.2 with MNF or Mandrake 9.0 with MNF machines in
production, and shorewall rocks.
Call me slack, but I use Monmotha. It's not even hard to tweak for
multi-homing. If I had time I'd make a
Leon Brooks wrote:
On Sunday 12 January 2003 05:13 pm, Ron Stodden wrote:
I then tried Monmotha for some time, and found its install excellent,
but documentation inadequate and support by wiki impossible.
Oh, it's got support now, has it? (-:
Yes, email Monmotha himself - but he prefers
On the assumption that the 9.1 beta 1 iso was created from the current
cooker, I tried to install that cooker as expert, without any joy, as
you will see.
1. The first thing I noticed was that it complained about all the RPMs
for languages other than English were missing. That is because
Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
Since rc5, KDE World Clock thinks that the entire world has the same
time as I do.
I guess I really am the center of civilization. :-)
It all works perfectly for me using 9.0 as updated, except (I think)
for daylight savings time.
--
Ron. [Melbourne, Australia]
Emmanuel Blindauer wrote:
Le Mardi 7 Janvier 2003 14:32, Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
Yes:
I'll go on the very beautifull and powerfull http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon,
I choose an adress beginning by rsync://
I follow instruction and here an exemple:
urpmi.addmedia main
francesco.melo wrote:
mirrors are full, there are problem connecting , and dowloading.
But there are more problem without a simple option that can permit to
retry when connection with the mirror fails.
for examples: 780 mb kde upgrade now ..i dowloaded this pkg 7 times
because everitime
Jason'
An hd.img of the current Cooker should install fine, although sometimes
some RPMs may not exist, and from time to time the Cooker installer
itself is out of order. None of these appear to apply to your complaint.
Therefore I consider your problem is most likely to be a defective
Jason Straight wrote:
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On Sunday 05 January 2003 08:20 am, Ron Stodden wrote:
rsync -av -H -P --progress --stats remotemirror/ localmirror/
Just FYI -P is like --progress --partial
so --progress is redundant.
You are exactly precisely correct
bcl.man wrote:
So HELP US TO HELP YOU to do the best distrib and publish not just a
half line to mirror
by ftp but a detailed Mandrake recommended procedure for cooker
installation
from ftp stage to last reboot stage.
If Mandrake responds, don't omit consideration of the work a few of us
Dalmar wrote:
i cant get cooker source added to install prog ?? i can't see the cooker
packages in install prog ...
No, the installer uses binary RPMs only.
See my web site below. Fastest Mandrake downloader can be very easily
adapted by you to download Mandrake sources (SRPMs).
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Ron.
Brook Humphrey wrote:
Dont now for some reason I dont trus rsync. I have caught it renameing files
that I know for a fact changed.
Huh?rsync never ever changes the names of files!
But our troels.rsync6.2pl downloader from my web site does change the
names of local RPMs about to be
Jason Straight wrote:
Yeah, when they come back up I'll have some power downloading to catch up :(
I hope you are one of the many happy users of Troel Bentson's fast
Mandrake downloader, available from my web site (see my signature below).
troels.rsync6.2.pl is ideal for heavy downloads.
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Warning:
The ext2 file system installed by the current cooker (Mandrake Linux
Cooker-i586 20021230 0:32) is not compatible with the ext2 file system
in Mandrake 9.0.
Specifically, if your 9.0 fstab contains a 1 2 on the Cooker partition,
the file system checkout during the 9.0 bring up will
Wouter Lagerweij wrote:
Hi,
I think something's wrong with hostname resolving, at least on my
machine, but maybe it's a cooker thing.
I have the following configuration:
host.conf:
order hosts,bind
multi on
resolv.conf:
search lagerweij.com
nameserver 194.109.6.66
hosts:
127.0.0.1
Bruno Prior wrote:
Can most people really
not afford $120 p.a. for Silver Club membership (even discounting the
benefits one receives for membership)?
Bruno, your figure is quite erroneous. While desirable, membership for
many is just not feasible. As explained in my previous message,
Jason wrote:
And in NZD (New Zealand Dollars) it is even higher, so yes, that IS a
lot of money to many and yes I think there are MANY (millions even)
users who would shell out for a lower tier in the club that would allow
for free ISO downloads during the first month of release. I started
Steffen Barszus wrote:
To the statement of that the download is not for free:
Here in germany are a lot of DSL users.They can download as much as they want
and pay only their monthly fee (79 EUR most cases) and people don't have DSL
know somebody who have it or go to an Iso-store.
I would
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