[expert] Howto add Update Sources (Mandrake Update)?

2003-03-20 Thread Jeremy Mereness
I was installing Mandrake 9.0 on a really small (32 Meg) PC. Usually, the install asks what Mandrake cd's you have available, but each time I tried with a low-resource PC, this was skipped. In the end, Mandrake was only aware of the first cd. I tried to use the Configure Sources tool in Mandrake

Re: [expert] Howto add Update Sources (Mandrake Update)?

2003-03-20 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 19:15, Jeremy Mereness wrote: > I was installing Mandrake 9.0 on a really small (32 Meg) PC. Usually, ... archives. today. subject is "Re: Installing mdk9.0 / drakx kickstart problems" Reply-to: is annoying. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to bu

Re: [expert] Howto add Update Sources (Mandrake Update)?

2003-03-20 Thread Miark
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 22:15:48 -0500 Jeremy Mereness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was installing Mandrake 9.0 on a really small (32 Meg) PC. Usually, > the install asks what Mandrake cd's you have available, but each time I > tried with a low-resource PC, this was skipped. In the end, Mandrake

Re: [expert] Howto add Update Sources (Mandrake Update)?

2003-03-21 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 22:19, Miark wrote: > On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 22:15:48 -0500 > Jeremy Mereness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I was installing Mandrake 9.0 on a really small (32 Meg) PC. Usually, > > the install asks what Mandrake cd's you have available, but each time I > > tried with a

Re: [expert] Howto add Update Sources (Mandrake Update)?

2003-03-21 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 20 March 2003 10:15 pm, Jeremy Mereness wrote: > I was installing Mandrake 9.0 on a really small (32 Meg) PC. Usually, > the install asks what Mandrake cd's you have available, but each time I > tried with a low-resource PC, this was skipped. In the end, Mandrake was > only aware of the

Re: [expert] Howto add Update Sources (Mandrake Update)?

2003-03-21 Thread Jeremy Mereness
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 19:15, Jeremy Mereness wrote: > I was installing Mandrake 9.0 on a really small (32 Meg) PC. Usually, ... archives. today. subject is "Re: Installing mdk9.0 / drakx kickstart problems" Reply-to: is annoying. My apologies if I created a duplicate thread. I wasn't so muc

Re: [expert] Howto add Update Sources (Mandrake Update)?

2003-03-21 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 10:28, Jeremy Mereness wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 19:15, Jeremy Mereness wrote: > > > I was installing Mandrake 9.0 on a really small (32 Meg) PC. Usually, > > ... > > > > archives. today. subject is "Re: Installing mdk9.0 / drakx kickstart > > problems" > > > > Reply-

Re: [expert] Howto add Update Sources (Mandrake Update)?

2003-03-21 Thread David E. Fox
> The installation program runs from a RAMdisk when you have 64MB or more > of memory. If you have less, as you do, the installation program must run So that's it. I'm not affected by lack of RAM, but it's good to see a coherent explanation. On the same issue - how much RAM does the installatio

Re: [expert] Howto add Update Sources (Mandrake Update)?

2003-03-21 Thread David E. Fox
> I was installing Mandrake 9.0 on a really small (32 Meg) PC. Usually, > the install asks what Mandrake cd's you have available, but each time I Hmm. That's kind of hard :(. I thought Miark summed it up best - the installer can't ask for other CD's if the installer has to be on the CD and not on

Re: [expert] Howto add Update Sources (Mandrake Update)?

2003-03-21 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 19:24, David E. Fox wrote: > > The installation program runs from a RAMdisk when you have 64MB or more > > of memory. If you have less, as you do, the installation program must run > > So that's it. I'm not affected by lack of RAM, but it's good to see a > coherent explanati

Re: [expert] Howto add Update Sources (Mandrake Update)?

2003-03-22 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 19:24, David E. Fox wrote: > > The installation program runs from a RAMdisk when you have 64MB or more > > of memory. If you have less, as you do, the installation program must run > > So that's it. I'm not affected by lack of RAM, but it's good to see a > coherent explanati