[newbie] Damn Mandrake Update

2001-10-19 Thread Franki
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

RE: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update

2001-10-19 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Franki |Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 4:13 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update | | | |Hi all, | |Is anyone else having heaps of trouble with mandrake update on 8.1? Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update

2001-10-19 Thread Charles A Edwards
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

Re: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update

2001-10-19 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
Mine's working well also. I had that problem in 8.0, but with 8.1 (clean install) everything has worked much better. Copying the CDs to the drive helps a lot with speed and keeps me from having to carry my CD pack around all the time. This is on a laptop. On Friday 19 October 2001 13:13,

Re: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update

2001-10-19 Thread Texstar
Thats what I did, I installed the latest rpmdrake from Cooker. Then I launched it from the console so I could watch the output. It allowed me to add security updates and cooker sources as well. It is also much much faster at loading the 1-2-3 cd database too! Just for grins check your

RE: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update

2001-10-19 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
PLEASE DO NOT Start a new message by sticking it on top of another. --- Oh n! Here comes a top poster versus bottom poster flame war. Franky I LIKE top posters, so I can avoid the lower part of the message if I know what it is in reference to. NOT quoting previous message(s) is rude,

RE: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update

2001-10-19 Thread Franki
] Subject: Re: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update Thats what I did, I installed the latest rpmdrake from Cooker. Then I launched it from the console so I could watch the output. It allowed me to add security updates and cooker sources as well. It is also much much faster at loading the 1-2-3 cd database too

RE: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update

2001-10-19 Thread Franki
Of Jose M. Sanchez Sent: Saturday, 20 October 2001 5:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update PLEASE DO NOT Start a new message by sticking it on top of another. --- Oh n! Here comes a top poster versus bottom poster flame war. Franky I LIKE top posters, so I

Re: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update

2001-10-19 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:22:33 -0400 Jose M. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PLEASE DO NOT Start a new message by sticking it on top of another. --- Oh n! Here comes a top poster versus bottom poster flame war. Franky I LIKE top posters, so I can avoid the lower part of the

Re: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update

2001-10-19 Thread Charles A Edwards
4:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update Thats what I did, I installed the latest rpmdrake from Cooker. Then I launched it from the console so I could watch the output. It allowed me to add security updates and cooker sources as well. It is also much much

RE: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update

2001-10-19 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Nevermind... -JMS |-Original Message- |From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 5:22 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] Damn Mandrake Update | | |On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:22:33 -0400 |Jose M. Sanchez [EMAIL